Causal relationship between personality traits and psychological well-being with quality of working life through perceived social support in nurses

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Department of Psychology, Dezful Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dezful, Iran

2 Assistant professor, Department of Psychology, Dezful Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dezful, Iran

Abstract

Introduction: The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between personality traits and psychological well-being with the quality of working life through mediation of perceived social support in nurses working in Dezful, Iran.
Materials and Methods: The research method was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of this study was all nurses working in hospitals in Dezful, Iran. Among the statistical population, 120 people were selected through targeted sampling. To collect the data, the social support questionnaire of Zimet et al. (1988), personality traits (NEO), psychological well-being of Reef (1989), Walton's quality of working life (2003). The proposed model was evaluated using path analysis.
Results: The findings of the study showed that direct traits of personality traits, psychological well-being and perceived social support to quality of working life as well as personality traits and psychological well-being to perceived social support were statistically significant (P<0.001). The results indicated that indirect relationship between personality traits and psychological well-being was significant through perceived social support with quality of working life (P<0.001).
Conclusion: It seems that quality of working life seems to be affected by many factors including personality traits, psychological well-being and perceived social support.

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