IMPACT OF PERSONALITY TRAIT AND PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY ON WORK-RELATED DEPRESSION, ANXIETY AND IRRITATION AMONG CHINESE NURSES

This study aimed to explore the impact of personality trait and professional identity on work-related depression, anxiety, irritation among Chinese nurses. Hospital nurses are known to work in stressful environment, which may lead to depression, anxiety and irritation symptoms. Few studies have been done to address this problem from the perspective of personality trait and professional identity in Chinese nurses. This was a cross sectional study. Data were collected from twenty hospitals of Hunan Province, in central China. The instruments used in this study were Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Short Scale, Professional Identity Questionnaire, and Work-Related Depression, Anxiety and Irritation Scale. Extraversion and professional identity negatively correlated with and predicted work-related depression, anxiety and irritation; Neuroticism and Psychoticism positively correlated with and predicted work-related depression, anxiety and irritation. Strengthening the nurses' professional identity may be helpful toward reducing work-related depression, anxiety and irritation. Administrative and psychological interventions of these work-related emotion problems should take the difference in personality trait into account.