Relationship of nurses’ intrapersonal characteristics with work performance and caring behaviors: A cross‐sectional study

• Published in: Nursing & health sciences Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 370 - 379
• Main Authors: Geyer, Nelouise‐Marié, Coetzee, Siedine K., Ellis, Suria M., Uys, Leana R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Melbourne John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd 01.09.2018; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Behavior; Caregiving; caring behavior; Confirmatory factor analysis; Cross-Sectional Studies; Empathy; Female; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; job involvement; Linear analysis; Male; Middle Aged; Nurse managers; Nurse patient relationships; Nurses; Nurses - psychology; Nursing; Nursing care; Patient satisfaction; Personality; Professional ethics; professional values; Psychometrics - instrumentation; Psychometrics - methods; Self Report; South Africa; Surveys and Questionnaires; work performance; Work Performance - standards; Work values; Workplace - psychology; Workplace - standards; South Africa; empathy; work performance; South Africa; job involvement; caring behavior; professional values

This study aimed to describe intrapersonal characteristics (professional values, personality, empathy, and job involvement), work performance as perceived by nurses, and caring behaviors as perceived by patients, and to examine the relationships among these variables. A cross‐sectional design was em...