Personality Traits, Personal Values, and Life Satisfaction among Polish Nurses

What is it about?

The aim of our study was to analyze the relationships between all variables (life satisfaction, traits and values) among Polish nurses in order to check whether the relationships in this group are similar to those found in general populations. In addition, the aim was to examine the joint effects of personality traits and personal values ​​on life satisfaction (as a representation of two personality levels according to McCrae and Costa's integrative model of personality) and to check whether personal meta-values ​​mediate the relationship between traits and life satisfaction, which not yet investigated.

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Why is it important?

The results showed that satisfaction with life was directly related to neuroticism negatively, and positively to extraversion, openness to experience, and self-transcendence values, and indirectly through these values ​​to 4 personality traits (except extraversion). They suggest that promoting the health and quality of nurses' work requires supporting and increasing their identification with the self-transcendence values.

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