J Nurs Acad Soc.  1985 Aug;15(2):62-67.

A Study on Relationship between the Personality and the Work Achievement of Nurses

• Park KE

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to investigates the desirable selection of nursing. The subjects for this study were made up of 144 R.N. in active service at H. University hospital in Seoul. This study was "Choice of nursing scale" as a tool which was MMPI questionnaire developed by Beaver(1953), and was consist of the choice of nursing scale made up to 66 items. The finding of this study related to their personality and their work achievement showed very significant differences : The results of this study are : 1. There was a significance of the difference between the responses of 64 student nurses and 64 College Women in Educations Curricular to Beaver score. (p<.001) 2. There was a significance in Beaver's score between high group(above 82) and low group(below 53) according to head nurses' work achievement score (p<.05) 3. This study had relationship between the personality and the work achievement of nurses. For the reason, I suggest that we had to apply to select the appropriate nurses in Health Field as Hospitals.

MeSH Terms

Female
Head
Humans
MMPI
Nursing
Surveys and Questionnaires
Rodentia
Seoul