Latent profile analysis of person⁃environment fit creativity of clinical healthcare workers and its influencing factors

ObjectiveTo explore the latent profiles of person⁃environment fit creativity among healthcare workers and to analyze the characteristic differences and influencing factors across these profiles.MethodsA total of 492 healthcare workers from four tertiary grade A general hospitals in Hunan province were surveyed from November 2024 to January 2025 using general information questionnaires,the Person⁃Environment Fit Creativity Scale,the Creative Self⁃Efficacy Scale,the Innovative Behavior Scale,the Leader Empowering Behavior Scale,and the Work Engagement Scale.Latent profile analysis was used to identify the potential categories of person⁃environment fit creativity.Logistic regression was applied to analyze the influencing factors of different profiles.ResultsThe latent profile analysis revealed that healthcare workers' person⁃environment fit creativity could be categorized into three latent classes: low⁃level adaptive type(32%),medium⁃level dynamic type(58%),and high⁃level synergistic type(10%).Logistic regression results indicated that education level,average monthly income,publication of papers or patents,creative self⁃efficacy,innovative behavior,leader empowering behavior,and work engagement were influencing factors for the different categories of person⁃environment fit creativity(P