OCCUPATION AND HEALTH ›› 2026, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (10): 1387-1391.

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Mediating role of mental health in operating room nurses' Big Five personality and work engagement

ZHANG Xin, WANG Mingxia(), LI Yujing   

  1. Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese MedicineJinanShandong 250011, China
  • Received:2025-07-28 Revised:2025-08-11 Online:2026-05-15 Published:2026-06-02
  • Contact: WANG Mingxia
  • About author:WANG Mingxia,E-mail:wangmx55@126.com

Abstract:

Objective To investigate the current status of Big Five personality,mental health and work engagement of operating room nurses in five grade-A tertiary general hospitals in Jinan City,and analyze the mediating role of mental health between Big Five personality and work engagement of operating room nurses. Methods From July to December 2024,a convenience sampling method was used to select 319 operating room nurses from five hospitals in Jinan City as survey respondents.A general information questionnaire,general Big Five scale,SCL-90 symptom self-assessment scale and work engagement scale were used for the survey. One-way analysis of variance,Pearson correlation analysis,and structural equation modeling were performed. Results The operating room nurses had a neuroticism score of (39.49±8.96)points,an extraversion score of (40.04±7.06)points,an openness score of (40.02±6.64)points,a conformity score of (41.51±6.18)points,a dutifulness score of (43.89±9.05)points,a mental health score of (141.83±57.27)points,and work engagement score of (48.62±20.70)points. The neuroticism in the Big Five personality was positively correlated with mental health(r=0.358,P<0.01),and negatively correlated with work engagement(r=-0.208,P<0.01). The extraversion,openness,conformity,and dutifulness in the Big Five personality were negatively correlated with mental health (r=-0.254,-0.234,-0.321,-0.213,all P<0.01),and positively correlated with work engagement(r=0.339,0.274,0.263,0.213,all P<0.01). The results of structural equation modeling indicated that mental health partially mediated the relationship between Big Five personality and work engagement,with its mediating effect accounting for 23.09% of the total effect. Conclusion The work engagement of operating room nurses in five grade-A tertiary general hospitals in Jinan City is at a moderate level,and the Big Five personality affects the work engagement level of operating room nurses through mental health.

Key words: Operating room nurses, Big Five personality, Mental health, Work engagement, Mediating role

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