Investigation of the Relationship among Personality Traits, and Self-Concept, and Occupational Perceptions of Nurses

Abstract

Aim: This study was carried out to evaluate the personality traits, professional self-concept and occupational perceptions of the nurses and to examine the relationship among them. Method: This is a descriptive and correlational study. The research sample was made of 185 nurses working in two private hospitals affiliated to a foundation university and in a medical center located in Istanbul Province. Data were obtained using the Ten-Item Personality Scale, the Perception of Nursing Profession Scale and the Professional Self-Concept Scale in Nurses. Results: The average age of nurses was 25.32, 42.2% had bachelor's degree and the duration of experience as a nurse was 5.21 years. In the ranking of the average scores of the answers given to the items of the Ten-Item Personality Scale, the averages of the statements "I consider myself as reliable self-disciplined", "I consider myself as sympathetic, warm-hearted" and "I consider myself as extroverted, enthusiastic" were higher than the means of other items. The general perceptions of nurses on nursing profession are moderately positive. Scores showed that professional self concept in nurses was quite positively (110.30±12.53). Positive relationship was found between the scores of Extroversion sub-dimension of the Ten-Item Personality Scale and the Professional Satisfaction sub-dimension scores of the Professional Self-Concept Scale in Nurses (p=0.006). No statistically significant relationship was found between the scores of the Ten-Item Personality Scale and Perception of Nursing Profession Scale (p>0.05). Statistically significant positive relationship was determined between scores of the Perception of Nursing Profession Scale and the Professional Self-Concept Scale in Nurses (p<0.01). Conclusion: Research results show ed a positive relationship between nurses’ occupational perceptions and professional self-perceptions, and that there is a need for strategies to improve the nurses’ occupational perceptions. It is important to adopt approaches that improve occupational perceptions and professional self-perception in accordance with the personality traits.

Determining nurses’ personality traits and the affecting factors

“…However, in the study conducted by Uzuntarla and Cihangiroğlu (2016) with nurses, no statistically significant difference was found between groups classified according to years of professional experience in terms of personality total scores. Findings obtained from studies involving participants from the nursing profession are consistent with ours (Çakıroğlu, 2015;Özdemir, 2018;Alan and Baykal, 2018;Yorgancılar, 2019). Studies indicate that the five-factor personality model gives successful results in measuring several behavioural features such as job satisfaction, career satisfaction, motivation, avoiding work, quitting, teamwork, organizational commitment, job performance, creativity, and coping with stress (Torun and Şenel Tekin, 2014).…”

“…Personality traits of an individual are part of a whole but is continual as well. They are unique to the individual and distinguish him/her from others (Gözel, Atmaca and Durat, 2017;Özdemir, Temiz and Akın, 2020;Alan and Baykal, 2018). Many studies on understanding, identifying, analysing and classifying the individual have specifically addressed the subject of "personality" (Dinç, 2018;Bahar and Köroğlu, 2021).…”

Gebelerin kişilik özellikleri ile doğum sonrası bebeklerinin hijyenik bakımlarına hazır oluşlukları arasındaki ilişki

“…Kişilik sözcüğü, kişinin karakteristik özelliklerini belirten "persona" sözcüğünden gelmektedir (1). Kişilik; kişinin fiziksel, zihinsel, ahlaki ve sosyal tüm özelliklerinin aktif bir şekilde bireyde örgütlenmesi olup, fiziksel ve sosyal ortamıyla etkileşme biçimini tanımlayan düşünce, duygu ve davranışın ayırt edici ve karakteristik örüntüleri olarak tanımlanabilir (2,3).…”