A big-five personality model-based study of empathy behaviors in clinical nurses

Wan, Qunfang; Jiang, Li; Zeng, Yihua; Wu, Xiaoling

doi:10.1016/j.nepr.2019.06.005

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“…The survey of nurses’ personality traits in this study showed that frontline nurses scored slightly higher on the E dimensions and relatively low on the N and P dimensions. The results indicated that the proportion of nurses with extroversion, low neuroticism, and low psychoticism was higher than the opposite tendency, indicating that the nurses are outgoing, cheerful, selfless, compassionate, gentle, and interact well with others, which agrees with previous studies (Wan et al 2019; Wang et al 2010; Xia et al 2013). Based on the Big Five personality model, a recent study showed that the strongest tendency in nurses was towards the dimension of agreeableness, followed by conscientiousness, openness and extroversion, and neuroticism (Wan et al 2019), also validating our findings.…”

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The mediating role of regulatory emotional self‐efficacy on negative emotions during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐sectional study

Sui

Gong

Zhuang

2021

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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Nurses exposed to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) are psychologically stressed. This study examines the characteristics and distribution of negative emotions among Chinese nurses during the COVID‐19 pandemic and explores regulatory emotional self‐efficacy (RESE) as the underlying mechanism in the relationship between nurses' personalities and negative emotions. A cross‐sectional design with convenience sampling was utilized. Three comprehensive tertiary hospitals located in China were selected. Nurses ( n = 339) who cared for COVID‐19 patients were enrolled. Recruitment was conducted between 14 February 2020 and 1 March 2020. Self‐reported questionnaires about personality, RESE, and epidemic‐related negative emotions were completed online. A correlation analysis, structural equation modelling, and the bootstrapping method were used to analyse the data. This study identified a 24.9% incidence of negative emotions in nurses. RESE was a significant mediator explaining the effect of personality on epidemic‐related negative emotions. RESE mediated the effect of introversion–extroversion on depression (β = −0.151, P = 0.015), neuroticism (β = −0.182, P = 0.007), fear (β = −0.142, P = 0.006), anxiety (β = −0.189, P = 0.015), and hypochondria (β = −0.118, P = 0.010); it also mediated the effect of neuroticism on depression (β = 0.313, P = 0.002), neuroticism (β = 0.394, P = 0.003), fear (β = 0.345, P = 0.005), anxiety (β = 0.384, P = 0.003), and hypochondria (β = 0.259, P = 0.004). Nurses caring for COVID‐19 patients displayed negative emotions, particularly emotionally unstable and introverted nurses with a low RESE level. RESE is often essential for interventions because it significantly influences the relationship between personality and negative emotions. In the event of a major outbreak, tailored psychological well‐being education, which includes emotional self‐efficacy strategies, should be provided by organizations to help nurses manage stress related to the outbreak.

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The mediating role of regulatory emotional self‐efficacy on negative emotions during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐sectional study

Sui

Gong

Zhuang

2021

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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“…Patients’ positives outcomes are directly influenced by the ability of professionals to develop positive relationships to provide quality and safe care and even influence the outcome of illness [ 7 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ]. For nurses, as the health care professionals that have the most continued and close contact with patients and their families, empathy is fundamental to ensure good nursing practice, obtain positive patient outcomes, and develop an effective therapeutic relationship with patients [ 7 , 16 , 17 , 18 ]. However, it is necessary knowledge worldwide that nurses are aware of the influence of their behavior while caring for their patients [ 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 ].…”

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Effect of Anxiety on Empathy: An Observational Study Among Nurses

Ayuso-Murillo¹,

Colomer-Sánchez

Santiago-Magdalena

et al. 2020

Healthcare

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Empathy, defined as an emotional ability to put oneself in the place of others, read their state of mind, and think how they are feeling, is an essential pillar of nursing care. On the other hand, anxiety is a frequent emotion that can be generated in stressful work environments, like nurses developing their activity. The aim of the present study is to explore the value of empathy and anxiety personal traits in staff nurses. The sample was comprised of 197 staff nurses from tertiary level hospitals from Madrid, Spain, where 79.2% were women and 20.8% were men in the present study. The instrument used for analysis was the Spanish adaptation of the 16PF5 questionnaire. The results showed the following measurements to warmth (5.58), lively (5.25), socially bold (5.6), privacy (5.82), open to change (5.62), self-reliance (6.12), and anxiety (6.38). Furthermore, anxiety affects positively to warmth (t: 2.66; p > 0.0001) and lively (t = 2.36; p < 0.05), but in a negative way to social bold (t = −3.17; p < 0.001) or open to change (t = −5.81; p < 0.0001). However, it was not seen to have any effect over privacy (t = 1.96; p = 0.052) and self-reliance (t = 1.19; p = 0.234). Finally, it is recommended that healthcare professionals reinforce their personal competencies to strengthen their skills to manage anxiety and improve their empathy competencies.

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“…For instance, activities may be introduced, aiming at strengthening the skills of coping with one's own emotions, and identification of own self-reflection and patient's emotions and those of their family [19]. In this regard, strengthening empathic tendency and developing high levels of emotional intelligence [5,26] may bear high significance.…”

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“…Therefore, it is not a uniform feature. One of its sub-dimensions is compliance, which is thought to call for special attention in the context of nursing [26]. This is related to the characteristics of the feature itself, since it concerns interpersonal relations and communication skills [25], i.e., two skills that are important in the clinical work of a nurse [27].…”

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“…It should be emphasized that every person has this trait and individual differences only concern its intensification, which can translate to the awareness of improving one's communication skills. Such awareness affects the feeling of psychological discomfort and shapes the need for change and modification of one's own skills [26]. Thus, it may be assumed that agreeableness may also be of key importance in the context of nurses' attitudes towards learning communicative skills.…”

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A Model of Factors Determining Nurses’ Attitudes towards Learning Communicative Competences

Iwanow

Jaworski

Gotlib

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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The aim of the study was to assess the empirical model of factors determining the attitude towards acquiring communicative competences among nurses participating in the program of specialist training courses. Research was conducted using a cross-sectional study. A representative group of 1010 Polish registered nurses that took part in the postgraduate education course answered a self-report survey (three instruments: NEO-PI-R questionnaire, Communication Skills Attitude Scale (CSAS), and Empathy Understanding Questionnaire (KRE II)) from the beginning of March to the end of May 2018, which was evaluated using path analysis. The research results conducted confirmed the soundness of the created theoretical model (χ2 = 0.278, p = 0.598, RMSEA < 0.05). It was proved that acquiring communicative competences in nurses is determined by factors such as professional experience, empathic tendency, and the intensity of agreeableness, whereby these factors are bound with each other creating a homogeneous network. The developed model demonstrated that skills can most effectively be shaped in an individual’s attitude based on positive mentoring in work environment.

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A big-five personality model-based study of empathy behaviors in clinical nurses

Cited by 33 publications

References 23 publications

The mediating role of regulatory emotional self‐efficacy on negative emotions during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐sectional study

The mediating role of regulatory emotional self‐efficacy on negative emotions during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐sectional study

Effect of Anxiety on Empathy: An Observational Study Among Nurses

A Model of Factors Determining Nurses’ Attitudes towards Learning Communicative Competences

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