TYPE Original Research PUBLISHED 26 October 2022 DOI 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1010827 OPEN ACCESS EDITED BY Antonio Giulio de Belvis, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy REVIEWED BY Neuza Ribeiro, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal Sulphey M. M., Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia *CORRESPONDENCE Taskin Erdo ˘ gan taskin.erdogan@atauni.edu.tr SPECIALTY SECTION This article was submitted to Public Health Policy, a section of the journal Frontiers in Public Health RECEIVED 03 August 2022 ACCEPTED 03 October 2022 PUBLISHED 26 October 2022 CITATION Erdo ˘ gan T, Bayraktar Y, Uçan F and Atilgan SS (2022) The effect of perceived stress on organizational silence in emergency service doctors in Turkey: The mediating role of emotional intelligence. Front. Public Health 10:1010827. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1010827 COPYRIGHT © 2022 Erdo ˘ gan, Bayraktar, Uçan and Atilgan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. The effect of perceived stress on organizational silence in emergency service doctors in Turkey: The mediating role of emotional intelligence Taskin Erdo ˘ gan 1 *, Yusuf Bayraktar 2 , Fatih Uçan 3 and Sait Sinan Atilgan 1 1 Faculty of Communication, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey, 2 Faculty of Tourism, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey, 3 Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey Objectives: The purpose of this study is to determine the role of emotional intelligence in the relationship between the stress perceptions of emergency medicine doctors and their organizational silence behaviors. Methods: Data were collected digitally from 434 doctors working in emergency departments in Turkey. On the assumption that perceived stress was effective on organizational silence behavior and that emotional intelligence mediates this relationship, hypotheses were developed and a mediating effect model was established. The research model and hypotheses were shaped through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Hayes 4th model was used to test the research hypotheses. The research model was tested via SPSS Process v4.1 by Andrew F. Hayes. Results: According to the correlation analysis to determine the relationship between the variables, it was determined that perceived stress was positively correlated with organizational silence behavior, emotional intelligence was negatively correlated with perceived stress, and emotional intelligence was negatively correlated with organizational silence. As a result of the mediating effect model test, it was determined that emotional intelligence had a statistically significant mediating effect in the effect of perceived stress on organizational silence. Conclusion: Within the framework of the findings, it is thought that emotional intelligence is a key variable in turning the negative energy between stress and silence into positive. KEYWORDS emergency service doctors, perceived stress, organizational silence, emotional intelligence, mediation effect, Hayes (2022) model 4 Frontiers in Public Health 01 frontiersin.org