Well-Being of Emergency Room Nurses: Role of Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Job Stress
نویسندگان
1 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bojnord, North Khorasan Province, Iran
2 Department of Ergonomics, School of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Zand Street, Shiraz, Hamidreza, Iran
3 Department of Psychology, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
4 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bojnord, North Khorasan Province, Iran
5 Department of Occupational Health Engineering, Faculty of Health, Qazvin University of Medical Science, Shahid Bahonar Street, Qazvin, Iran
6 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bojnord, North Khorasan Province, Iran
doi
10.30473/ijohp.2021.56526.1153چکیده
Objective: To investigate whether neuroticism and extraversion predicted job-related affective wellbeing of people working under stressful conditions, notably emergency room nurses. Also, to investigate whether perceived job stress mediated the relationship between neuroticism, extraversion, and job-related affective well-being.Methods: A cross-sectional survey design was administered to 242 nurses working at an emergency room in Tehran, Iran, recruited through available sampling, including two sub-scales of the NEO Five-Factor Inventory, the Job-Related Affective Well-Being Scale, and the Job Stress Questionnaire.Structural Equation Modelling was deployed for data analysisusing SPSS Amos v22.0and PROCESS macro for SPSS, setting significance threshold at p<.05.Results: Direct and statistically significant effects of neuroticism (β = -.17, p<.005) and extraversion (β = .41, p<.001) on perceived job stress were found, as well as a negative effect of extraversion on job-related affective well-being (β = -.27, p<.001). Perceived job stress was found to negatively predict job-related affective well-being (β = -0.60, p<.001). There was no significant relationship between neuroticism and job-related affective well-being. The mediating effect of perceived job stress was supported (p<.001).Conclusion: Results have theoretical implications for research about the relationship between personality traits and job-related well-being of employees working under stressful conditions. As for practical implications, hospital managers might implement workplace interventions to enhance nurses’ job-related affective well-being and reduce nurses’ job stress. In this context, extraversion and job stress should be understood as psychosocial risk factors, whereas neuroticism should be conceived as a protective factor against job stress.
