Personality Traits, Personal Values, and Life Satisfaction among Polish Nurses.

Nurses' life satisfaction (LS) predicts their health and the level of care they provide to patients, thus policies for promoting quality of nurses' work require actions to increase their LS. The aim of this study was to examine relations between LS and two levels of personality (traits and values) among Polish nurses, including joint effects of traits and values in a model integrating all variables to check whether meta-values can mediate trait-LS relationships. Nurses ( = 155) aged 23-64 completed the NEO-FFI, Satisfaction with Life Scale, and PVQ40.

The mediational effect of coherence on the relationship between mental load and job burnout among oncology nurses.

Aims: The purpose of this study was to determine the mediational effect of coherence on the relationship between mental load and job burnout among oncology nurses.

Background: Working stress and strain cause high mental load and can lead to job burnout among oncology nurses. Sense of coherence protects against the negative consequences of occupational mental load and may prevent professional burnout.