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Abstract
Toxic leadership is ineffective behavior that reflects leadership’snegative/dark side and can negatively affect not only the nurses but also the whole hospital. Hence, nurses’ job coping is essential in the present competitiveenvironment. The studyaimed to identify toxic leadership as perceived by nurses and its relation to their job coping. Design: A descriptive correlational study design was utilized. Setting: The study was conducted in Critical Care Units at Benha University Hospital. Subjects: Included aconvenient sample consisting of 295 nurses out of 500 nurses recruited and presented duringdata collection who had at least one year of job experience and were accepted to participatein the study. Tools: Two tools were used for data collection; (I): Toxic LeadershipQuestionnaire (II): Job Coping with the Toxic Leadership Questionnaire. The study results showed that three-fifth (59.6%) of the studied nurses had a low perceived level of toxic leadership, and less than two-fifths (38.0%) of them had a moderate perceived level. While the lowest percentage (2.4%) of them had a high perceived level of toxic leadership. Moreover, less than three-quarters (72.2%) of the studied nurses had a high job coping level. While, and slightly more than one-quarter (25.8%) of them had a moderate level. While the lowest percentage (2.0%) of them had low job coping levels as reported by the studied nurses. The study concluded that there was a highly statistically significan positivecorrelation between total perceived toxic leadership scores and total job coping among nurses. The study recommended developing and implementing proper strategies and coping mechanisms to deal with toxic leaders.