IMPACT OF PERSONALITY TRAIT AND PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY ON WORK-RELATED DEPRESSION, ANXIETY AND IRRITATION AMONG CHINESE NURSES.
Yefei WangBin ZhangPublished in: The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health (2018)
This study aimed to explore the impact of personality trait and professional
identity on work-related depression, anxiety, irritation among Chinese
nurses. Hospital nurses are known to work in stressful environment, which may
lead to depression, anxiety and irritation symptoms. Few studies have been done
to address this problem from the perspective of personality trait and professional
identity in Chinese nurses. This was a cross sectional study. Data were collected
from twenty hospitals of Hunan Province, in central China. The instruments used
in this study were Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Short Scale, Professional
Identity Questionnaire, and Work-Related Depression, Anxiety and Irritation Scale.
Extraversion and professional identity negatively correlated with and predicted
work-related depression, anxiety and irritation; Neuroticism and Psychoticism
positively correlated with and predicted work-related depression, anxiety and
irritation. Strengthening the nurses’ professional identity may be helpful toward
reducing work-related depression, anxiety and irritation. Administrative and
psychological interventions of these work-related emotion problems should take
the difference in personality trait into account.