ArticleHealth psychology open
Personality and job satisfaction among Chinese health practitioners: The mediating role of professional quality of life.
Article in Health psychology open. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Secondary traumatic stress and burnout in healthcare professional: systematic review and a meta-analysis based on correlation coefficient.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- Job satisfaction and its correlation with pharmacists' performance and patient trust.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- The relationship between personality traits and job satisfaction among physicians at designated infectious disease medical institutions in Gansu province: the mediating role of negative coping strategies.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Influence of Personality Traits and Organizational Justice on Job Satisfaction among Nurses.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Personality Traits, Burnout, and Psychopathology in Healthcare Professionals in Intensive Care Units-A Moderated Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Brief Mindfulness Training Mitigates College Students' Mobile Phone Addiction: The Mediating Effect of the Sense of Meaning in Life.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- The mediating effect of personality on mental workload and perceived professional benefits of nurses in East China.BMC nursing · 2023Article
- Associations between Personality Traits and Areas of Job Satisfaction: Pay, Work Itself, Security, and Hours Worked.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Mapping the terrain: a scoping review of empirical studies on the big five personality traits and QoL in China.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Professional Quality of Life, Work-Related Stress, and Job Satisfaction among Nurses in Saudi Arabia: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach.Journal of environmental and public health · 2023Article
- Occupational Stress and Personality in Medical Doctors from Romania.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Role of Efficient Human Resource Management in Managing Diversified Organizations.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The Relationship Between Nurse's Professional Quality of Life, Mindfulness, and Hardiness: A Cross-Sectional Study During the COVID-19 Outbreak.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The reflective risk assessment model of professional quality of life in Chinese nurses.Journal of nursing management · 2021Article
- A Cross-Cultural Study of Filial Piety and Palliative Care Knowledge: Moderating Effect of Culture and Universality of Filial Piety.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
This study aims to explore mediating effects of professional quality of life on the relationship between big-five personality traits and job satisfaction in a Chinese healthcare setting. A total of 1620 Chinese healthcare professionals were recruited to participate in a randomised cross-sectional survey. The results suggest that professional quality of life transmitted the effect of personality to job satisfaction. Specifically, compassion satisfaction and burnout mediated the positive effect of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness upon job satisfaction; as well as mediated negative effects of neuroticism upon job satisfaction. Secondary traumatic stress mediated the positive effect of extraversion upon job satisfaction. The paper also discusses the cultural factors contributing to the mediating effects and implications offered by the study at the macro, messo, and micro levels.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.