The Effect Of Personality Traits, Anxiety And Depression On The Risk Decision-making Of Nurses

Objectives To investigate the relationships of personality traits, anxiety, depression andrisk decision-making of clinical nurses and to analyze the effect of personality traits, anxiety,depression and nurses’ risk decision-making in different frames，which help nurses torecognize their own personality traits and emotional state, to improve the effectiveness ofdecision-making.Methods In the study450registered nurses were all involved in the work of thefollowing scales: Demographics questionnaire, The Big Five Personality Inventory,Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS), and Riskdecision-making Scale. The levels of personality traits, anxiety, depression and riskdecision-making of clinic nurses were descriptively analyzed in statistics. The relationships ofpersonality traits, anxiety, depression and risk decision-making of clinical nurses weremeasured by Pearson correlation. The multiple linear regression analyses were performed toexamine the predictability of risk decision-making of clinical nurses with personality traits,anxiety and depression.Results The nurses tended to choose the risky programs in the positive or negativeframe. In the negative frame, the nurses showed more stronger risk preference, surgical nursestended to choose the riskier program than medical ones, and the older nurses tended tochoose the riskier program than the younger ones. Agreeableness was correlated with the positiveeffect intensity of nurses’ risk decision-making in the positive frame(r=0.17， P<0.01).Extroversion was correlated with the positive effect intensity of nurses’ risk decision-making in the negative frame（r=0.21，P<0.01); anxiety was correlated with the positive effect intensity ofnurses’ risk decision-making in the negative frame（r=0.14，P<0.05). Depression was notsignificantly correlated with nurses’ risk decision-making in the positive or negative frame(P>0.05). When the related demographic statistics variables were controlled, Agreeableness was aneffective predictor of nurses’ risk decision-making in the positive frame（=0.19，P<0.05).Extroversion was an effective predictor of nurses’ risk decision-making in the negative frame（=0.17，P<0.05). Anxiety was an effective predictor of nurses’ risk decision-making in thenegative frame, which was of no statistical significance(=0.21，P>0.05).Conclusions (1) The nurses tend to choose the risky program both in the positive and innegative frames. In the negative frame, the nurses show even stronger risk preference.(2)Agreeableness is related to nurses’ risk decision-making in the positive frame. Extroversion andanxiety are related to nurses’ risk decision-making in the negative frame.(3) Depression is notsignificantly correlated with nurses’ risk decision-making both in the positive and in negativeframes.