How Perfectionism and Variation in Time Pressure Impact Patient Injury Due to Care

• Main Authors: Wei Ni Huang, 黃薇霓
• Other Authors: C. I. Teng
• Format: Others
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/up985b

碩士 === 長庚大學 === 工商管理學系 === 102 === In health service contexts, nurse personality likely influences job performance. Among personality traits, positive perfectionists can adjust their standards and actively complete their jobs, typically leading to high quality performances. Therefore, perfectionism likely reduces injury due to care. Moreover, time pressure is one of the common sources of pressure and influential to care outcomes, but variation in time pressure lacks researchers’ attention. Hence, this study examines how perfectionism and variation in time pressure impact injury due to care. The sample of this study came from one medical center in northern Taiwan. Data were collected in 104 units, resulting in 383 valid responses. Findings indicate that perfectionism is negatively related to patients’ injury due to care. Moreover, variation in time pressure is not significantly related to patient injury due to care. However, perfectionism interacts with variation in time pressure to result in patients’ injury due to care. This study provides insights for health service managers to understand how perfectionism interacts with variation in time pressure to impact care outcomes. Such insights are useful for managers when recruiting and managing health service personnel.