Comparison of Anxiety, Resilience and Life Expectancy and Explain Their Relationship in Nurses and Psychiatric Nurses

The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing anxiety, resilience and life expectancy and explaining the relationship between them in nurses and psychiatric nurses.

The method of this research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive, comparative causative in terms of the method of data collection. The statistical population of the research included all nurses and psychiatric nurses working in Kashan hospitals in February 1401. A sample of 60 people, including 30 nurses and 30 psychiatric nurses, was selected from this population by simple random method. Kettle's anxiety questionnaires (1957), Connor and Davidson's resilience (2003) and Miller's (1988) life expectancy questionnaires were used to measure the variables. Independent t-test and Pearson's correlation coefficient were used to analyze the data.

The results of the research showed that there is no significant difference between the anxiety, resilience and life expectancy of nurses and psychiatric nurses. Also, the results showed that there is a negative significant relationship between anxiety and resilience with the correlation coefficient - 0/54 (p<0.001). In other words, resilience explains 29% of the variance of anxiety. there is a positive significant relationship between resilience and life expectancy. according to the correlation coefficient 0.64 between them 40% of the variance of resilience is explained by life expectancy. Also, There is a negatuve significant relationship between anxiety and life expectancy. according to the correlation coefficient - 0/51 between then 26% of the variance of anxiety is explained by life expectancy.

Based on the findings of the research, anxiety, resilience and life expectancy are three factors affecting the quality of mental health of nurses and psychiatric nurses, which should be taken into consideration and measures should be taken to increase the two components of resilience and life expectancy and in The result of reducing anxiety was applied.