ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Personality and Social Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1576252
The impact of nurses' caring behaviors and personality traits on workplace violence
Provisionally accepted
- 1School of Medicine, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hebei Province, China
- 2Hubei Provincial Third People's Hospital (Zhongshan Hospital), Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
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Aims: Based on the propensity score matching method, this study analyzes the correlation between nurses' exposure to workplace violence, caring behaviors, and personality traits. The analysis provides a foundation for developing individualized strategies to prevent workplace violence among nurses. Methods: Convenience sampling was conducted from February to June 2024 in Grade 3A hospitals across 11 Chinese provinces. The study utilized the Workplace Violence Frequency Measurement Scale, Caring Behaviors Inventory, and Ten-Item Personality Inventory for data collection. The analysis employed propensity score matching to pair nurses experiencing low-frequency workplace violence with those experiencing high-frequency workplace violence in a 1:2 ratio, controlling for confounding variables. The associations between personality traits, caring behaviors, and workplace violence were then analyzed. Results: Following propensity score matching to control for baseline information, the analysis included 622 nurses (403 in the low-frequency exposure group and 219 in the high-frequency exposure group). The findings revealed respect and connectedness (OR=0.946, 95.0% CI: 0.912 ~0.981), emotional stability (OR=0.814, 95.0% CI: 0.711 ~0.906) as negative predictive effects, and openness as a positive predictive effect (OR=1.250, 95.0% CI: 1.065 ~1.398). Conclusion: Nurses demonstrating patient respect and maintaining close contact, along with those exhibiting emotional stability, experience low-frequency exposure to workplace violence; conversely, nurses with more open personalities experience higher frequency exposure. These findings suggest the importance of enhancing nurses' caring behaviors and implementing personality-specific training programs to address workplace violence.
Keywords: Nurses, caring, personality traits, Tendency score matching, impact
Received: 18 Feb 2025; Accepted: 29 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Chang, Liu, Hu, Zeng and Zhang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
juan Hong Chang, School of Medicine, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hebei Province, China
Chun Zhang, Hubei Provincial Third People's Hospital (Zhongshan Hospital), Wuhan, 430000, Hubei Province, China
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