Assessing Nurses’ Organizational Health Based on Their Personality Traits and Mental Health

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the relationship of organizational health with personality traits and mental health of nurses at Imam Ali hospital in Zahedan. This was a descriptive-correlational study. The population of the study consisted of all nurses (male and female) working at Imam Ali state hospital in Zahedan (N=530). 225 subjects were selected among the population based on Morgan’s table and applying random sampling method. Instruments included the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28), NEO-PI-R and Hoy and Tarter’s (1997) Organizational Health Inventory. For data analysis, the Pearson correlation and hierarchical stepwise regression analysis were used. Results of the study indicated that there was a negative significant relationship between organizational health and the dimensions of anxiety, insomnia, and social dysfunction. Given the scoring procedures of the questionnaires (high scores onmental health components indicate lower mental health) it could be argued that as mental health increased, organizational health increased. By examining the priorities of the predictor variables of organizational health, social dysfunction and anxiety were entered respectively into the model. Moreover, results suggested that there was a positive and significant relationship between the dimensions of introversion-extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness with organizational health. By examining the priorities of the predictor variables of organizational health, the variables of extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness and neuroticism were entered respectively into the prediction model.