Prediction of Rehabilitation Nurses’ Psychological Well-BeingThrough Personality Traits and Defense Mechanisms

Objectives: in clinical practice, nurses who have shown consternation at the psychological well being aremore motivated in practice. the stigma of needing mental health care remains a concern for most people.the purpose of the study was to predict the psychological well-being of rehabilitation nurses based onpersonality traits and defense mechanisms.methods: in a co relational research, the participants consisted of all married female nurses inrehabilitation hospitals of the qom city. the sample size estimated by tabachnik and fidel method 114and with overestimate attain to 120 people. the participants were selected by cluster random samplingmethod. data collected by ryff's scales of psychological well-being, big five personality inventoryshort form (neo ffi) and defense style questionnaire (dsq - 40). data analyzed by pearson correlationcoefficient and multivariate regression by the use of spss software (v20).results: analysis of research data indicated that traits of extroversion (p  0.01), neuroticism (p  0.01),agreeableness (p  0.01), mature defensive style (p  0.01) and immature defense style (p  0.01) couldexplain variance of psychological well-being of nurses significantly.discussion: considering to the findings of this research can concluded that personality traits and defensestyles be able to predict the psychological well-being significantly.