AUTHOR=Zhou Xin , Zhang Yinrui , Wang Yuhang , Wang Haixia , Sun Shuaijun , Huang Xianhong 

TITLE=The impact of medical staff’s character strengths on job performance in Hangzhou hospitals

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 14 - 2023

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1291851

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1291851

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Background: Improving job performance has a significant effect on the quality of medical services and ensuring people's health. Purpose: This study explores the influence and mechanism of the character strengths and career callings of medical staff as well as the intermediary role of such career calling. Methodology: A cross-sectional survey was conducted of 414 healthcare staff members in public hospitals in Hangzhou. Descriptive statistics and hierarchical linear regressions were used to analyze the medical staff's job performance and related factors, and structural equation modeling path analysis was used to explore and validate the influence and mechanism of character advantage and career calling on job performance. Results: The results show that medical staff character strengths have a positive impact on job performance. Path analysis shows that character strengths indirectly affect job performance, and career calling plays a partial mediating role in character strengths and job performance. Conclusion: The results show that good personalities promote job performance, and the association is more significant under a high sense of career calling.Job performance refers to the performances and achievements of professional people in their work (Colquitt, 2001). The job performance of medical staff is an important measure of medical institutions' ability to provide high-quality medical service, which is significant in their operation and development. Improving medical staff's job performance helps improve the quality of hospital medical services and the relationship between doctors and patients, which plays a substantial role in the stable and rapid development of hospitals (Wu and Ma, 2018