The influence of personality traits on nurses' job satisfaction in Taiwan

CHANG Y.H., LI H.-H., WU C.M. & WANG P.C. (2010) The influence of personality traits on nurses' job satisfaction in Taiwan. International Nursing Review Aim: The purpose of this study was to empirically investigate a set of personality traits based on core self-evaluations in relation to job satisfaction among nurses in Taiwan, and to identity important personality characteristics in contributing to nurses' satisfactory attitudes towards work. Method: A cross-sectional survey research was conducted with self-reported questionnaires. The participants were 314 nurses (89% response rate) in two regional hospitals in Taiwan. Among them, 99% were female (n = 311), 54.5% (n = 171) ranging between 21 and 30 years old, 37.9% (n = 119) ranging between 31 and 40 years old, 44.6% (n = 140) are registered nurse, 29.3% (n = 92) are licensed vocational nurse and 52.9% were married (n = 166). In addition, ethical research requirements for conducting research on human subjects were fulfilled for all of the participants in the study. Analysis: Data were analysed using SPSS version 14.0 software (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). A number of data analysis procedures were conducted including descriptive statistics, Pearson product-moment correlation and multiple regression analysis. The selection of the predictor variables was performed with the level of significance P