The effect of personality traits on organisational stress: A study about nurses

It can be seen that human beings react differently to the same events, have different views about the same phenomena, and use different ways in order to achieve the same purpose. As a result of the different influences of stress sources and having different levels of stress individuals to individuals, the employees who have the same job are not able to react to the same events. The level of being affected by stress and the toleration of stress show differences because of depending on personality traits. In brief, the differences which are based on personality traits are important about the formation of stress. The study aim to shed light on the relationship between the personality traits of the nurses, who work in Atatürk State Hospital in Antalya, and organisational stress. In the first part of the study personality traits, secondly, organisational stress and lastly the results of questionnaire about the topic are evaluated. The questionnaire was analysed by utilising SPSS. As a conclusion of the study, it can be said that there are significant relations between personality traits of the nurses and organisational stress.