rafiei, sima and kalhor, roohollah and Shahsavari, Saeed and Souri, Saber (2021) Investigating the Relationship between Nurses' Personality Traits and their Safety Behaviors in Qazvin Hospitals: The Mediating Role of Safety Motivation. Masters thesis, Qazvin University of medical sciences, Qazvin, Iran.
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Backgroundand aim: Recognizing the personality traits of employees and examining the role of these traits in motivating people's safety can greatly lead to the formation of safe behavior of employees. Considering the significant importance of reducing adverse events and developing safe behaviors, present study aimed to investigate the role of nurses' personality traits in their safety behaviors with the mediating role of safety motivation during 2019-2020. Materials and methods: This is a descriptive-analytical study conducted among nurses working in educational hospitals affiliated by Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, from which 435 individuals were selected by multi-stage proportional sampling method. Data were collected using McCray and Costa Five-Factor Personality Questionnaire, Saleh Motivation Questionnaire (2010) and Safe Behavior Questionnaire (2016) and analyzed by SPSS software version 26 and AMOS software version 23. Results: The path coefficients between nurses' personality traits and their safety motivation (0.557) and safety motivation with safe behavior of individuals (0.267) were statistically significant (p<0.05). Furthermore the path coefficient between nurses' personality traits and safe behavior (0.573) was statistically significant (p<0.05). Also, By using the Sobel test, the mediating role of safety motivation in relation to nurses' personality traits and their safe behavior was confirmed (z <1.96). Conclusion: Results affirmed that safety motivation in nurses had a significant effect on their safety behavior. Therefore, it is recommended to improve safety motivation through establishing an incentive systems to appreciate the employees who had an appropriate and safe behavior in the workplace. Keywords: Personality traits, Safety motivation, Safe behavior, Nurses.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| Divisions: | University Thesis > Faculty of Health > Health Care Management |
| Depositing User: | Health School Students |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Oct 2021 08:23 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Oct 2021 08:23 |
| URI: | http://eprints.qums.ac.ir/id/eprint/11094 |
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