The Relationship Between Hardiness, Personality Traits and Coping Styles with Occupational Satisfaction Among the Nurses of Governmental Hospitals in Tabriz

Results: The results of this study showed that job satisfaction and neuroticism have a negative and meaningful relationship. On the other side, job satisfaction has a positive and meaningful relationship with flexibility, conscientiousness and extraversion. There is no meaningful relationship between pleasure and job satisfaction. Also a positive relationship exists between the problem-oriented coping style and pleasure. There is a negative relation between the emotional-avoidance, coping styles and avoidance with the job satisfaction. Hardiness components had a positive and meaningful relationship with job satisfaction. Also, multivariate regression showed that among predictor variables only the psychoanalytic, flexibility and conscientious variables were able to predict the job satisfaction of nurses. Among the coping styles, the problem-based and avoidance style pre-emptive variables on job satisfaction were effective. All three hardiness components were able to predict the job satisfaction of nurses.