Health Psychology
Bahareh Saghanejad; Javidi Hojatollah; Majid Barzegar
Abstract
The aim of this research was to investigate the mediating role of dependence and non-dependence on the field in the relationship between personality traits and cognitive performance with nurses' job performance. Psychologists consider job performance as a product of human behavior and believe that motivations ...
Read More
The aim of this research was to investigate the mediating role of dependence and non-dependence on the field in the relationship between personality traits and cognitive performance with nurses' job performance. Psychologists consider job performance as a product of human behavior and believe that motivations and needs have an effect on people's performance and ultimately growth and development. They can be identified through a set of specific owners. Theoretically, job performance includes two components, the first component is job performance that reflects job requirements and requirements, and the second component is field performance that includes undefined and unspecified activities such as teamwork and support. It takes In fact, background work refers to those job-related activities (such as working hard and helping others) that are not officially considered part of the job or duty. Another core theory is related to job performance, the underlying ground of this theory is that the internal nature of job duties can motivate people. If the job is interesting and enjoyable, people will like their jobs, have higher motivation and perform their duties better. One of the influencing variables on people's job performance is cognitive performance. MethodThe current research was descriptive-correlational and of the type of structural equations and modeling. The statistical population includes nurses from hospitals in Shiraz and the sample size, using the table of krejci and Morgan (1970), including 200 nurses from different hospitals in Shiraz, who were selected by cluster sampling. And through the measurement tools of cognitive style test of dependence and non-dependence on the field of Eltman, Raskin and Witkin (1971), Costa McGarry personality traits questionnaire (1985), Patterson job performance questionnaire (1970) and Ridley-Stroop Stroop test (1935). Were evaluated. The data were analyzed using structural equations. ResultsThe findings confirmed the mediating effect of dependence and non-dependence on the field in the relationship between personality traits and cognitive performance with nurses' job performance.DiscussionIn fact, cognitive style is the result of a person's interactions with his environment in the process of growth and socialization, and it is effective on a person's attitude and attitude towards others and the way he communicates with them, and this process leads to his job performance in adulthood. to be effective and act with more social resilience in the face of job difficulties and problems and perform best by acquiring job information. Cognitive style reacts to information, stimuli and situations in a spontaneous and automatic way and enables a person to learn strategies and methods with the help of them from the maximum points Use the strengths and advantages of your style and minimize the weaknesses and limitations and show the best performance.
S. Nasri; B. Najarian; M. Mehrabizadeh Honarmand; H. Shokrkon
Abstract
This study was aimed at comparing the effectiveness of cognitivebehavioral therapy (CBT) and progressive muscular relaxation technique (PMRT) in the symptom improvement of nurses diagnosed, as suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). All female nurses working in Tehran Medical Sciences University ...
Read More
This study was aimed at comparing the effectiveness of cognitivebehavioral therapy (CBT) and progressive muscular relaxation technique (PMRT) in the symptom improvement of nurses diagnosed, as suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). All female nurses working in Tehran Medical Sciences University Hospitals were considered as the population under study, 1088 of whom were selected through a stratified random sampling method for CFS screening. From those diagnosed with CFS, 72 subjects were randomly assigned to three experimental groups (24 subjects in each group), and then 24 “healthy nurses” (i.e., CFS nonsufferers) working in the same hospitals were also randbmly selected and assigned to the control group. Therefore, four groups were formed: CBT group, PMRT group, CFS control group, and a “normal group”. The recovery indices (i.e. dependent variables) employed were subjects fatigue, emotional distress, and dysfunctions, which were measured twice (i.e., before and after interventions) by Chalder’s Fatigue Scale. Results indicate that CBT was more effective than PMRT in the reduction of fatigue and dysfunctions, while PMRT was more effective than CBT in the improvement of subjects’ emotional distress. Both CBT and PMRT were found to be more effective than no treatment condition regarding all three dependent measures.
