PERSONALITY ADJUSTMENT AND ANXIETY OF NURSING AIDES IN NURSING HOMES.
Contributors: University of Florida.
Published: 1990
Number of pages: 145
Subjects: Gerontology.; Education, Guidance and Counseling.; Health Sciences, Education.; Education, Adult and Continuing.
Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate personality adjustment and anxiety of nursing aides currently employed in nursing homes and to relate these factors to various demographic and work-related variables. Personality adjustment was determined by scores on the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank (RISB); anxiety was measured by scores on the Trait-Anxiety scale (Form Y-2) of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI, Form Y).

Volunteer participants in the study were 124 nursing aides from five nursing homes. Research data were analyzed using multiple regression, t-tests for sample means, Pearson product moment coefficients of correlation, and frequency distributions.

By criteria established for the RISB, 20% of the aides in the study had personality adjustment scores indicating strong conflict in interpersonal relationships. The mean anxiety score was significantly higher for nursing aides than the norm established by the STAI for working adults. A positive correlation existed between personality adjustment scores and anxiety scores.

Using a linear regression model, neither personality scores nor anxiety scores were significantly related to age, length of time employed in nursing homes, or the number of homes in which aides had worked. In a separate analysis using a linear model, personality adjustment scores and anxiety scores were regressed on nursing home, work shift, liking of job, and gender. For personality adjustment scores, whether an aide like or disliked the job was the only significant variable; for anxiety scores, the significant variables were nursing home, shift, and age.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-01, Section: A, page: 0265.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, 1990.

School code: 0070.