Correlation study of personality characteristic and coping style on the management of departments division among new nurses

Abstract

Objective To analyze the relation between personality characteristics,coping styles and division management,so as to understand the relationship between mental health status,personality characteristics,and workplace of new nurses during the adapting period of department environment,and improve the quality of care.Methods Totals of 61 nurses who were assigned to a comprehensive hospital in 2010 as the experimental group,and other 65 nurses who were assigned to the hospital in 2009 as the control group.The experimental group adopted the management of department division by analyzing the personality traits,coping style assessment and nurse leadership style,while the control group was randomly division.Intervention effects were evaluated respectively in before division,6 months and 18 months after division.Results There were six nurses left in control group,the left rate was 9％,while no one left in experimental group.Hostility factor score of SCL-90 of experimental group was lower than that in control group after 6 months of division (t =3.12,P ＜0.01),as well as the scores of retreat of coping style and rationalization factor (t =3.75,3.35,respectively;P ＜ 0.01).Forcing factor score of SCL-90,and self-reproach factor score of coping in experimental group were lower than that in control group (t =2.02,2.68,respectively ; P ＜ 0.05),while EPQL factor score was significantly higher than that in control group(t =2.20,P ＜ 0.01) after 18 months of division.Conclusions According to the psychological characteristics and coping style of new nurses,and leadership style of head nurses to divide the department for new nurses can improve mental health of the new nurses,promote them to adopt mature and positive coping styles to the stress,and promote their loyalty for the nursing and the stability of nurses team. Key words: Nurse ; Division; Personality characteristic ; Coping style