Hasan Bagherinia; Mohammad Yamini; Es-hagh Ilderabadi; Fahimeh Bagherinia
Volume 22, Issue 6 , January and February 2016, , Pages 1063-1070
Abstract
Background and aim: Nurses encounter with different job stresses that because of different personality traits meet stress in different ways and their mental health affected by personality traits. The aim of this research is investigation of relationship between personality traits and mental health with ...
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Background and aim: Nurses encounter with different job stresses that because of different personality traits meet stress in different ways and their mental health affected by personality traits. The aim of this research is investigation of relationship between personality traits and mental health with resilience mediation in nurses.
Methods and Materials: This research is descriptive with path analysis way. 105 nurses in Sfarayen hospital were randomly selected. NEO personality, Conner and Davisson and Goldberg mental health questionnaires were used. Correlation and path analysis tests using SPSS and AMOS for data analysis.
Results: Results indicated that direct effects of neuroticism (Beta= 0/282 and P=0/000), consciousness (Beta=0/207 and P=0/002), and resilience (Beta=0/392 and P=0/000) are significant on mental health and other direct paths into mental health were not significant and also personality traits of neuroticism (Beta= -0/236 and P=0/000), agreeableness (Beta=0/147 P=0/000), and openness (Beta= 0/044 and P=0/014) have indirect significant effect.
Conclusion: Personality traits in addition to direct effect on mental health have indirect effect on mental health via resilience. So it can mention resilience variable as one mediator variable between personality traits and mental health.