Personality Traits, Thinking Styles, and Emotional Intelligence in Nursing, towards Healthcare Providers’ Characterization and Safer Patient Care

Abstract

Background: This study explored nursing personality traits (Big Five Inventory BFI), emotional intelligence (EI), and thinking styles (Rational, RS, and Experiential, ES) together with demographic data to see how they could relate and the implication of this on nurses and patient safety. Design: A cross-sectional study. Methods: Nursing sample (n = 435). Participants completed a self-report online survey, which included demographic information, followed by questionnaires to measure personality traits, thinking styles, and emotional intelligence. Results: Spearman's rank correlation was computed to assess the relationship between EI and Extraversion; there was a moderate positive correlation between the two variables, r = 0.487, p < 0.001. Spearman's rank correlation was computed to assess the relationship between EI and Agreeableness, and there was a strong positive correlation between the two variables, r = 0.731, p < 0.001. Spearman's rank correlation was computed to assess the re-How to cite this paper: Bataweel, A.O.

Personality Traits, Thinking Style, and Emotional Intelligence among Pharmacy Staff towards Safer Patient Care

“…High daily usage of social media pharmacy staff was found to have significantly high scores in Neuroticism and lower scores in openness and conscientiousness (objective 3). This is similar to other studies where nurses with high daily social media usage had significantly higher scores in Neuroticism and lower scores in conscientiousness and agreeableness but not with openness, as is the case in this study (Bataweel, 2023). As was shown in this study (objective 3) and previous studies in nursing (Bataweel, 2023), higher error rates were significantly associated with lower scores in agreeableness and conscientiousness.…”

“…This is similar to other studies where nurses with high daily social media usage had significantly higher scores in Neuroticism and lower scores in conscientiousness and agreeableness but not with openness, as is the case in this study (Bataweel, 2023). As was shown in this study (objective 3) and previous studies in nursing (Bataweel, 2023), higher error rates were significantly associated with lower scores in agreeableness and conscientiousness. Additionally, high scores in neuroticism were associated with many undesirable effects like depression, anxiety, medication errors, ineffective communication with peers and patients, and would have less ethical and moral values (Bataweel, 2023).…”

“…As was shown in this study (objective 3) and previous studies in nursing (Bataweel, 2023), higher error rates were significantly associated with lower scores in agreeableness and conscientiousness. Additionally, high scores in neuroticism were associated with many undesirable effects like depression, anxiety, medication errors, ineffective communication with peers and patients, and would have less ethical and moral values (Bataweel, 2023). It was recommended in one study about pharmacy and medicine should not accept students with high scores in Neuroticism due to the significant association with psychological issues (Bataweel, 2022).…”

“…The constructs of emotional intelligence and personality traits were found to be closely related and were found to have a strong genetic correlation, and they could be considered identical constructs and are distinctive, reliable and useful measures of individuals' characters and behaviour (van der Linden et al, 2018;Ciarrochi et al, 2000). The constructs are used as a predictive tool emotion and behaviour in the workplace in healthcare disciplines including nursing, medicine and pharmacy (Lievens et al, 2009;Qualter et al, 2011;Hardigan & Cohen, 2023;Bataweel, 2023;Bataweel & Ahmed, 2023). The other reliable construct of human behaviour is the style of thinking.…”

“…The other reliable construct of human behaviour is the style of thinking. One construct is based on the dual-system theory where thinking style is divided into two distinctive styles: system 1, more intuitive and less effort, and system 2 which is slower and requires more cognitive efforts (Bataweel, 2023;Bataweel, 2022;Kannengiesser & Gero, 2019). The study will aim to investigate four constructs, two for thinking styles using the Rational Experiential Inventory (REI) and General Decision Making Style inventories (GDMS), emotional intelligence and personality traits using the Big Five model to give a more holistic view of pharmacy staff as healthcare providers, the effect of these constructs on the performance and behaviour and investigate the correlation among all these constructs given the considerable evidence of the effect of personality with performance and its influence on decision making (Dewberry et al, 2013).…”