When asked mental health nurses consistently report
relatively high levels of occupational stress. These
levels of occupational stress are seen as affecting
staff retention and also as creating a barrier to
the ongoing programme of improvement in mental
health care. Research suggests that the critical
factors in nurses ability to cope with
occupational stress are the personality variables
that are considered to have consistency over the
individuals biographical history and which are
commonly described as dispositions or traits.
Previous research has argued that the limits
implicit...