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    (UMT.Lahore, 2022) AAMNA IMRAN; RAMSHA NAEEM; SHAHZADI RAZIA SULTANA; RIDA ARIF
    The study was conducted to explore the relationship between working environment, empathic concern and professional quality of life among female staff nurses. It was hypothesized that 1) there is likely to be a relationship between working environment, empathic concern and professional quality of life among female staff nurses and 2) Working environment and empathic concern are likely to predict professional quality of life among female staff nurses. The correlational research design was used in the present study. About 190 nurses with age range of 19-58 years (M = 30.79, SD = 7.34) from different hospitals in Lahore including Jinnah Hospital, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Govt. Mozanag Hospital and Sheikh Zayed Hospital were approached. The self-constructed demographic sheet, Working Environment Scale (Rossberg et al., 2004), empathic concern subscale of Interpersonal Reactivity Index (Davis, 1983) and Professional Quality of Life scale (Stamm, 2010) were used for assessment. The results of Pearson Product Moment Correlation analysis concluded that self-realization is positively associated with empathic concern and compassion satisfaction among nurses. Further, it was found that workload in work environment is also positively associated with secondary traumatic stress. Further, conflict and nervousness and in the hospital environment is positively associated with burnout and secondary traumatic stress. Results of Multiple Hierarchical Regression analyses showed that self-realization positively predicted compassion satisfaction but negatively predicted burnout among female staff nurses. Further, conflict and nervousness in work environment positively predicted secondary traumatic stress and positively predicted burnout. This study is useful to highlight the factors that affect professional quality of life of nurses and linking with their burnout and secondary traumatic stress. This study can also be used in devising strategies to improve xii quality of work environment in hospitals influencing quality of life of healthcare profession system and to devise strategies to help improve the professional quality of life of nurses.