Analyzing the Relationship Between Job Stress to Mental Health, Personality Type And Stressful Life Events of the Nurses Occupied in Tehran 115 Emergency

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Nursing are known as a profession that is constantly exposed to various stresses. Stress job in this profession could lead to disturbances that seriously put at risk the mental health of nurses. Pressure caused by stressors in the job has the undesirable effect on the individual and the organization. Increased accidents and injuries, poor staff morale , low motivation, job satisfaction and Fatigue early are natural consequence lack of the elimination of workplace stressors (1). Although nurses have been trained to attention to care and quality of life of patients But they rarely think of their individual needs (2). Occupational Safety and Health Institute has been investigated the relationship between mental illness and job stress , reported that Among the 130 job studied, Nursing has been allocated ranked 17th in the acceptance rate to mental health problems (3). National immunity Association of America has also reported that amongst 40th most stressful professions, nursing job is with high prevalence of disease-related stress (4). Therefore we conducted a cross-sectional study over 200 randomly selected nurses which working in Tehran Emergency Medical Services (Also named 115 Tehran Emergency units) to investigate the relationship between psychological stress and personality type and life events in them. A general Health questionnaire and a special questionnaire were used in order to evaluate their mental health and possible contributing factors including job stress personality type and daily life events respectively. Results of the study show that 115 emergency nurses in Tehran are facing with high job stress. Mental health reduce, When higher levels of job stress and exposure to stressful life events increase in this group, The findings indicate that increasing in the stressful life events cause to job stress is more and People with type A personality are less compatible with stress and are prone to get mental disorder. Overall, the results of this study are consistent with other studies in the field of occupational stress such as Gershon E (5), Kirkcaldy D (6) and Neylon TC (7). However, it is important to be noted that these studies have been carried out on populations with different characteristics and various stressful life. This study showed that there is a significant relationship between job stress with mental health and exposure time of life events with personality type. In general, mental health nurses …