Study on the Relationship between Personality and Mental Health of Medical Staff

Objective To study the correlation between personality and mental health of medical staff,and to provide reference for psychological counseling and interventions. Methods Self-evaluated Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ-adult) were used to evaluate the personality and mental health of 644 medical staff. Results There are significant difference between the medical staff and control subjects in somatization,interpersonal sensitivity,phobia,paranoia and psychosis. The scores of EPQ-P,EPQ-N and EPQ-L obtained from medical staff were lower than the scores obtained from the control subjects. The scores of EPQ-E were significant higher in medical staff than the control. The scores of EPQ-P and EPQ-N were positively correlated with all factors listed in SCL-90. Individuals with psychological problems had a higher EPQ-N and EPQ-P scores. Individuals with certain special personality tended to have psychological problems. The detected rate of these problems was in the order of introversion and neuroticism extraversion and neuroticism introversion and stability extraversion and stability. Conclusion Mental health of the general medical staff was found to be satisfactory. The personality is correlated with the status of their mental health. Individuals with neuroticism,psychoticism and introversion tends to have unhealthy mental reaction and can easily be identified. Attention should be paid to the staff with mental health problems.