Bullying at Workplace and Personality Characteristics of Nurses
ZHENG Bo-yuan
ZHANG Jing-ping
Abstract：Objective:To describe the actualities of nurse’s bullying at work and its relationship with personality characteristics.Method:Totally 148 nurses from two hospitals in Shantou were selected by convenience sampling.They were assessed with the Negative Acts Questionnaire(NAQ-R) and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire(EPQ-RSC).The data was processed with SPSS 19.0.Result:Present situation of clinical nurse bullying at work:43.9% of nurses participating in the research had encountered bullying at work in the last 6 months.There were no significant differences among marriage,status education background and professional title(P>0.05).And personality of the nurses had significant influence on nurse’s bullying at work(P<0.05 or <0.01). Conclusion:Bullying at work exists in the nurses, which is influenced by their personality characteristics.
Keywords：NurseBullyingPersonalityCross sectional study
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 77-79 )