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Anjana Prusty ¹, Satyananda Panda ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, IN

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to investigate mental health in relation to personality traits of school going adolescents from urban slums of Bhubaneswar, India. There are approximately 1 billion slum dwellers in the world, and projected to grow to 1.4 billion by the year 2020. Research demonstrates that children and adolescents living in slums shoulder a poor mental health and disturbed personality compared to their adult counterparts. The present study intends to get a holistic picture of the personality patterns and mental health status of school going adolescent boys and girls from urban slum areas aged 16-19 years. 60 senior secondary students (30 boys and 30 girls) from two urban slum areas of Bhubaneswar, Odisha studying in two Government Colleges (B.J.P Autonomous College and Ramadevi Women's College of Bhubaneswar) in Bhubaneswar, Odisha were selected for data collection. Mental Health Battery short form MHB-SS and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised (EPQ-R) were selected for collection of data. Overall mental health has negative and significant relationship with psychoticism which shows that since majority of the adolescents have good mental health. However, adolescent boys and girls did not differ significantly on various dimensions of mental health and personality. Policy makers in field of mental health should ensure that there is adequate and proper mental health services for those having indications of mental health problems in school going adolescents from urban slums. The results have an implication for future research.

Keywords

Urban Slum, Mental Health, Personality, Adolescents, Psychoticism.

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Anjana Prusty ¹, Satyananda Panda ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, IN

Abstract

Nursing is, by its very nature, an occupation subject to a high degree of stress. Many nursing tasks are mundane and unrewarding. Many are by normal standards distasteful, even disgusting, others are often degrading; some are simply frightening. Workplace stress has long been recognized as a challenge for the nursing profession. There is limited research exploring the personality characteristics of nurses within clearly defined nursing specialty areas. The present study aimed to compar epersonality trait and stress level of nurses serving in government and private hospitals. The descriptive survey has been used as the research method in this study. The sample of 60 qualified nurses (30 Government and 30 Private Nurses) was selected using random cluster sampling. Data were collected by using Nursing Stress Scale and NEO Five Factor-3 Inventory. Significant differences were found among government and private nurses on various dimensions of stress level like conflict with physician, lack of staff support, conflict with other nurse and supervisor and highly significant differences were found on workload. However, no significant relationship was found between stress and personality traits. No significant difference of different dimensions of personality traits among private and government nurses was found. Results also indicated that all the five personality traits are good predictors for stress as well as among nurses at 0.001 levels. However, no significant relationship between personality characteristics and levels of nursing stress among government and private nurses was found. 76.7% of private nurses reported that they experience medium level stress and only 23.3% of them experience low level of stress. 73.3% government nurses reported that they experience low level stress where as only 26.7% of them experience medium level of stress.

Keywords

Personality, Stress, Nurses, Workload, Conflict.

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