OCCUPATION AND HEALTH ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (19): 2695-2701.

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Mediating effect of resilience between personality traits and career adaptability among nursing students

SUN Yuqing1, ZOU Qunfeng1, ZHANG Bixia2, LIAO Xiaoyu3a, QIU Dingrong3b   

  1. 1. The Second Clinical Medical College,Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine,Guangzhou,Guangdong 510405,China;
    2. Shanghai Children's Medical Center Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine,Shanghai 200120,China;
    3. a Cardiovascular Medicine and Arrhythmia Department,b Department of Nursing,The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine,Guangzhou,Guangdong 510120,China
  • Received:2025-01-05 Revised:2025-01-22 Online:2025-10-01 Published:2025-12-13
  • Contact: QIU Dingrong,Chief nurse,E-mail:gzqdrong@126.com

Abstract: Objective To understand the relationship between personality traits,resilience and career adaptability of nursing students,and to provide assistance in developing precise intervention plans to improve their career adaptability and guide their vocational education. Methods Eysenck personality questionnaire-short scale for Chinese,Chinese version of the 10-item Connor-Davidson resilience scale and college students' career adaptability questionnaire were used to investigate 208 students in a grade-A tertiary hospital in Guangdong Province,and the data were analyzed. Results The scores of resilience,career adaptability and each dimension of personality traits were (28.38±6.47),(132.01±15.97)points,psychoticism(2.38±2.06)points,extraversion(7.57± 3.07)points,neuroticism(4.29±3.40)points and lying(3.88±3.65)points. Extroversion was positively correlated with career adaptability and resilience(both P<0.01),psychoticism and neuroticism were negatively correlated with career adaptability and resilience(all P<0.01),and career adaptability was positively correlated with resilience(P<0.01). Resilience partially mediated the relationship between extraversion and career adaptation,neuroticism and career adaptation,with mediation effects accounting for 51.79% and 63.80% of the total effects,respectively. Resilience played a completely mediating role between psychoticism and career adaptability,accounting for 75.22% of the total effect. Conclusion The career adaptability of nursing students is above the medium level. Extraversion and neurotic personality can not only directly predict the career adaptability of nursing students,but also indirectly affect the career adaptability of nursing students through resilience like psychogenic personality.

Key words: Nursing students, Career adaptability, Resilience, Personality traits, Mediating effect

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