Mohaddeseh Mohsenpour; Abbas Abbaszadeh; Mohammad Hasan Rakhshani; Mohammad Sadeghi Bimorgh; Seiedeh Soolmaz Mousavi
Volume 23, Issue 3 , July and August 2016, , Pages 526-531
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Objectives Quality of work life has important role in job satisfaction and quality of services. Personality compatibility with profession is one of the issues that affect job satisfaction. This study was conducted for the purpose of evaluation of nurses’ quality of work life in Sabzevar University ...
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Objectives Quality of work life has important role in job satisfaction and quality of services. Personality compatibility with profession is one of the issues that affect job satisfaction. This study was conducted for the purpose of evaluation of nurses’ quality of work life in Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, and comparing it with their demographic data and its correlation with personality-profession compatibility.Materials & Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted among nurses in Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences by two-stage sampling (quota - random) method. Holland personality-profession compatibility questionnaire and quality of life questionnaire were used for this study, after confirming their reliability and validity by coefficient and expert agreement. The obtained data were entered into SPSS and were analyzed with statistical analysis. Results The average quality of work life in the studied nurses was 20.51 and standard deviation was 4.16. About 39.5% of nurses were dissatisfied with the quality of their work life, 4.8% satisfied, and 1.6% was very satisfied. Personality of the 20.6% of participants was quite compatible, 33.4% was relatively compatible, and 46% was incompatible with nursing profession. Average quality of work life in terms of personality compatibility differences was not statistically significant.Conclusion In this study, the quality of work life has been reported poor, and most nurses showed inappropriate personality for this profession. According to the main results, attention of managers to these two important issues in this group, as the largest health care provider group, was suggested.
Seyyedeh Solmaz Mousavi; MohammadHasan Rakhshani; Fariba Borhani; Abbas Abbaszadeh; Mahadeseh Mohsenpour
Volume 21, Issue 5 , September and October 2014, , Pages 849-855
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Background: Personality compatibility of individuals with profession that provides services to others is one of important issues that have received less attention while there is a great impact on the quality of services provided and to professional success. This study aimed to assessment of personality ...
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Background: Personality compatibility of individuals with profession that provides services to others is one of important issues that have received less attention while there is a great impact on the quality of services provided and to professional success. This study aimed to assessment of personality compatibility of nurses with nursing profession in Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences in 2013.
Materials and Methods: 62 nurses were worked in Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences in 2013 were selected by simple random sampling participated in this cross-sectional study. This survey Instrument was standardized questionnaire of Holland personality-job compatibility that by means of it compatibility of nurses’ personality with the nursing profession is determined at three levels: non-compatible, relatively compatible and absolutely compatible. Data was analyzed by SPSS.
Results: 46% of nurses participating in this study had non-compatible personality and 33/4% of them had relatively compatible personality and only 20/6% had absolutely compatible personality whit nursing profession. Compatibility of personality whit nursing profession according to demographic characteristics had no meaningful differences.
Conclusion: this study showed large percentage of nurses working in Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences had non-compatible personality whit nursing profession, and this results shows attention to this important issue by health managers and correction of selection of more compatible nursing student are necessary.