| [Background]With development of clinical medicine, high standard nursing professionalism is needed. In order to increase the quality of nursing, it is important for the nurses to have the critical thinking ability.[Objectives]To describe the status of critical thinking among nurses; and to investigate the relation of critical thinking to personality and trait coping style.[Methods]1. Objectives:883 qualified nurses were selected from 3 hospitals in Jinan with different levels of hospital.2. Methods:The questionnaire was filled out by the respondent anonymously.3. Scales:Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory-Chinese Version (CTDI-CV), Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ-RSC), Trait Coping Style Questionnaire (TCSQ) were used to evaluate critical thinking, Personality and coping style, respectively.4. Statistical analysis:The interitem correlations of scale was assessed by Cronbach’s alpha. The scores of the scale were transferred to centesimal grade. If Bartlett’s test for equal variances between groups is not statistically significant, one-way analysis of variance was used to test the differences of means of metric variables; otherwise, the Kruskal-Wallis equality-of-populations rank test was used. The relation of critical thinking to personality and trait coping style were analyzed by linear regression. All statistical analyses were carried out with STATA/SE version 13.1 (Stata Corporation, College Station, TX, USA). All reported probabilities (p-value) were two-sided, and that less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant.[Results]1. General data:The average age of 883 persons in this survey was 29.7±7.0y. The youngest one was 20y and the eldest one was 50y. Persons between 25y and 44y were the biggest part in these group by 67.2%, while elder than 45y were the least by 5.7%. Average working period was 8.1±7.9y, with 37y the longest.2. In EPQ-RSC, the highest score is neuroticism by 54.480±11.164, while psychoticism the lowest by 48.346±9.759. Score of positive coping style in TCSQ was 66.489±11.374, much higher than 58.20811.582 of the negative one. In CTDI-CV, the highest score was 7.946±9.418 in inquisitiveness, and the lowest score was 58.111±9.044 in truth seeking.3.There are significant difference in truth seeking among different ages of nurse (P<0.05). Married nurses got significant higher scores in truth seeking, systematicity and self-confidence (P<0.05). Nurses with higher education got higher scores in every component of critical thinking (P<0.05). Nurses with specialty of nursing got higher scores in analyticity, open mindedness, systematicity, inquisitiveness and total scores (P<0.05). Nurses working between 4y and 10y got lower scores in open mindedness, analyticity, systematicity, self-confidence and cognitive maturity than the other two group (P<0.05). Nurses of N4 got highest scores, while N2 got the lowest (P<0.05). There was no difference among nurses in different departments (P>0.05).No difference was found in junior or senior nurses. Nurses with no night-duty got higher scores in truth seeking, open mindedness, systematicity, self-confidence and total scores than those have night-duty (P<0.05).Nurses in charge got higher scores in every component than others, esp. in truth seeking, open mindedness, analyticity and systematicity. There was no difference in nurses with teaching tasks, or nurses as mentors of graduate students. Nurses having experience of advanced education got higher scores in open mindedness, analyticity, systematicity, self-confidence and total scores (P<0.05)。4. Night-duty had negative relation with truth seeking, open mindedness, analyticity, systematicity, inquisitiveness and total scores. Nurses in charge had positive relation with truth seeking. Specialty of nurses had positive relation with open mindedness, analyticity, systematicity, inquisitiveness and total scores. Education had positive relation with open mindedness, analyticity, systematicity, self-confidence, inquisitiveness, cognitive maturity and total scores. Advanced education experience had positive relation with self-confidence. Title and position of nurse had negative relation with inquisitiveness.5. Critical thinking had negative relation with psychoticism and neuroticism (P<0.05), and positive relation with extrovision and lie (P<0.05).6. Critical thinking had positive relation with positive coping style (P<0.05), and negative relation with negative coping style (P<0.05).[Conclusions]1. Nurses with all backgrounds showed positively in all seven components of critical thinking. It shows the difference is of statistical significance among nurses with different marriage status, education, specialty, working period, degree, night-duty, nurse-in-charge and advanced education.2. There are correlation between critical thinking and nurses with different background. There is positive correlation of education level to analyticity, systematicity and inquisitiveness. Special training and higher education level help to improve self-confidence, while there is negative correlation of critical thinking with night duty.3. There is significant correlation of critical thinking with Eysenck personality and trait coping style. Critical thinking had negative relation with psychoticism and neuroticism, and positive relation with extrovision and lie. Critical thinking had positive relation with positive coping style, and negative relation with negative coping style. |
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