The Relationship between Personality Traits of Temperament and Character and Professional Ethics: The Mediating Role of Psychological Defense Mechanisms
Introduction: Compliance with ethical standards by hospital staff plays a significant role in the treatment process of patients. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of personality traits of temperament and character on professional ethics with the medi...
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| description | Introduction: Compliance with ethical standards by hospital staff plays a significant role in the treatment process of patients. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of personality traits of temperament and character on professional ethics with the mediating role of psychological defense mechanisms in hospital staff.
Material and Methods: The method of this study was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of the present study was employees of Al-Jazeera Hospital in Riyadh in 2024. Considering the number of the target population, 60 people were selected by simple random method. In this study, the professional ethics questionnaire of Armito et al. (2011), defense mechanisms of Anders et al. (1993) and the personality trait questionnaire of temperament and character of Cloninger (1994) were used. The data were analyzed using the Pearson correlation method and path analysis with SPSS18 and Amos23 software.
Results: The findings showed that there is a significant negative correlation between immature mechanisms (-0.24) and neurotic mechanisms (-0.22) with professional ethics at a significance level of 0.01. There is a significant positive correlation between mature mechanisms (0.29), temperament (0.26), and character (0.28) with professional ethics at a significance level of 0.01. Also, psychological defense mechanisms play a mediating role in the relationship between personality traits of temperament and character on professional ethics. Also, the total coefficient of explanation in the direct and indirect paths by personality traits of temperament and character and psychological defense mechanisms on professional ethics was equal to 0.51.
Conclusion: This study showed that cognitive and behavioral factors including psychological defense mechanisms and personality traits of temperament and character play a fundamental role in the level of professional ethics of hospital staff. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-51097562934041369780fd3ce5b8fd452025-01-24T09:57:47ZengIranian Association for Ethics in Science and TechnologyInternational Journal of Ethics and Society2981-18482676-33382025-01-01646469The Relationship between Personality Traits of Temperament and Character and Professional Ethics: The Mediating Role of Psychological Defense MechanismsMohammad Alharabi0Ahmed Alghamdi1Leyla Alghatani2 Department of Nursing, College of Nursing, Riyadh Elm University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Department of Nursing, College of Nursing, Riyadh Elm University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Department of Nursing, College of Nursing, Riyadh Elm University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Introduction: Compliance with ethical standards by hospital staff plays a significant role in the treatment process of patients. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of personality traits of temperament and character on professional ethics with the mediating role of psychological defense mechanisms in hospital staff. Material and Methods: The method of this study was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of the present study was employees of Al-Jazeera Hospital in Riyadh in 2024. Considering the number of the target population, 60 people were selected by simple random method. In this study, the professional ethics questionnaire of Armito et al. (2011), defense mechanisms of Anders et al. (1993) and the personality trait questionnaire of temperament and character of Cloninger (1994) were used. The data were analyzed using the Pearson correlation method and path analysis with SPSS18 and Amos23 software. Results: The findings showed that there is a significant negative correlation between immature mechanisms (-0.24) and neurotic mechanisms (-0.22) with professional ethics at a significance level of 0.01. There is a significant positive correlation between mature mechanisms (0.29), temperament (0.26), and character (0.28) with professional ethics at a significance level of 0.01. Also, psychological defense mechanisms play a mediating role in the relationship between personality traits of temperament and character on professional ethics. Also, the total coefficient of explanation in the direct and indirect paths by personality traits of temperament and character and psychological defense mechanisms on professional ethics was equal to 0.51. Conclusion: This study showed that cognitive and behavioral factors including psychological defense mechanisms and personality traits of temperament and character play a fundamental role in the level of professional ethics of hospital staff.http://ijethics.com/article-1-358-en.pdfprofessional ethicsdefense mechanismspersonality traits of temperament and character |
| spellingShingle | Mohammad Alharabi Ahmed Alghamdi Leyla Alghatani The Relationship between Personality Traits of Temperament and Character and Professional Ethics: The Mediating Role of Psychological Defense Mechanisms International Journal of Ethics and Society professional ethics defense mechanisms personality traits of temperament and character |
| title | The Relationship between Personality Traits of Temperament and Character and Professional Ethics: The Mediating Role of Psychological Defense Mechanisms |
| title_full | The Relationship between Personality Traits of Temperament and Character and Professional Ethics: The Mediating Role of Psychological Defense Mechanisms |
| title_fullStr | The Relationship between Personality Traits of Temperament and Character and Professional Ethics: The Mediating Role of Psychological Defense Mechanisms |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Relationship between Personality Traits of Temperament and Character and Professional Ethics: The Mediating Role of Psychological Defense Mechanisms |
| title_short | The Relationship between Personality Traits of Temperament and Character and Professional Ethics: The Mediating Role of Psychological Defense Mechanisms |
| title_sort | relationship between personality traits of temperament and character and professional ethics the mediating role of psychological defense mechanisms |
| topic | professional ethics defense mechanisms personality traits of temperament and character |
| url | http://ijethics.com/article-1-358-en.pdf |
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