Comparison of the Relation between Thinking Styles and Five Personality Traits with Self-Efficacy in Nurse in Corona and Other (Noncorona) wards

On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a statement declaring Covid-19 a public health condition not only for China but also as a threat to world health. In the meantime, nurses have an important role to play in providing health care.

The aim of this study was to compare the relationship between thinking styles and five personality traits with self-efficacy in nurses of corona wards and nurses of other wards (non-corona) in two teaching hospitals in Khorramabad. 

The present research method was descriptive-correlation. The statistical population included all nurses in Shahid Rahimi and Nomadic Martyrs hospitals in Khorramabad. Using relative stratified random sampling method, the sample size was 310 people with a probability of loss of 330 people and then 312 people with 160 nurses working in corona wards and 152 nurses working in non-corona wards who entered the study. Sternberg and Wagner standard thinking questionnaires, Costa and McCrae NEO-FFI questionnaires and sheerer self-efficacy questionnaires were used to collect data. Data were analyzed using SPSS software using Pearson correlation coefficient, multiple regression analysis and t-test. 

The findings showed that there is a significant relationship between all thinking styles and all five personality traits with self-efficacy in nurses of corona wards and nurses of other wards (non-corona). Also, from the variable of thinking styles, partial thinking style, anarchist and judicial and from the variable of five personality traits, all but acceptance, contributed to predicting the self-efficacy of nurses. Finally, the results showed that corona ward nurses and non-corona ward nurses were not significantly different in any of the variables. 

According to the findings of the study, it can be concluded that thinking styles and five personality traits have an effective role in nurses' self-efficacy.