Relationship between Personality Types and Stress: A Comparative Study among Male and Female Nurses in Health Care Setting

By : Ayub Ghasemian, G. Venkatesh Kumar

Page No: 347-354

Abstract
Nursing is a profession with a lot of responsibilities which has to be handled effectively. It affects on the life style and behavior characteristics and these may lead to the cause of stress, when they are not able to overcome with adverse situations. The purpose of present study was to investigate the relationship between personality type and stress and also to explore the effect of gender on personality type and stress among nurses. Sample comprised of 100 nurses who were working in different hospitals of Bangalore and Mysore region which were selected for the present study. ABBP scale and ISMA questionnaire were used to measure personality type and level of stress respectively. Finding of this study revealed that there is positive and significant relationship between type A personality and stress of nurses and also it was found that type B personality has significant relationship with stress but it has negative relationship with stress. Significant difference was not found between gender and personality type and stress of nurses. It can be concluded as nurses with type A personality are more prone to have stress than nurses with type B personality and influence of gender on personality type and stress is not significant.

Authors :
Ayub Ghasemian : Department of Studies in Psychology, University of Mysore, Manasagangothri- 570 006, Mysore (India).
G. Venkatesh Kumar : Department of Studies in Psychology, University of Mysore, Manasagangothri- 570 006, Mysore (India)