Role of Personality and Metacognition in Job Satisfaction and General Well being of Nurses a Descriptive Study

Abstract

Nursing has made phenomenal achievements in the last century, which has lead to the recognition of nursing as an academic discipline. Nursing is a profession focused on assisting individuals, families, and communities to attain, recover, and maintain optimum health along with all functions from birth to old age. Nursing care involves number of activities, from carrying out complicated technical procedures to something as seemingly simple as holding a hand. The dramatic transformation with the change of times, if on one hand has brought a convenience for the hospital staff; it is also acting as a well-suited battle field for its respective staff. The hospital environment is a never ending challenge for its medical staff and it requires a stable mindset for them in order to meet the challenges effectively and diligently. newlineThe present study was aimed to understand the role of personality and metacognition in the general well-being and job satisfaction of the staff nurses. For the present study the sample comprised of 600 staff nurses working in Government and Private Hospitals, Patiala (Punjab). In order to collect the data systematically, four standardized questionnaire were selected by the investigator. The tests used in the study were Job Satisfaction Scale (Basson, 1994); PGI General Well-being Measure (Verma and Verma, 1989); NEO-FFI Personality Inventory, (NEO PI-R, Costa. T. Paul; McCrae, 1992) and Metacognitive Awareness Inventory, (MAI, Schraw and Dennison, 1994). The findings of the study suggested highly significant correlations. newlineThe indices of personality and job satisfaction of the staff nurses showed the significant correlations between general satisfaction with extraversion and conscientiousness. Openness to experience found to possess a significant positive relationship with opportunity to develop, Conscientiousness was found to be positively correlated with responsibility of employees but significantly negatively associated with neuroticism. Overall job satisfaction was found to be significantly and negative correlated with neuroticism personality trait. Job satisfaction was obtained to have significant positive association with metacognitive skills i.e. with planning, comprehension monitoring, debugging strategies and evaluation. In the same way, job satisfaction was found to be positively associated with declarative knowledge, procedural knowledge and conditional knowledge of metacognition. The metacognitive strategies such as planning, debugging strategies and conscientiousness depict a positive contribution towards the job satisfaction among nurses whereas neuroticism and extraversion revealed a negative contribution in the job satisfaction. The comprehension monitoring, declarative knowledge and agreeableness showed a positively contribution to the well-being among nurses whereas neuroticism revealed a negative contribution in the well-being. newlineKeywords: Personality, Metacognition, General Well-being, Job satisfaction and Staff nurses. newline newline