Character strengths as catalyst of Healthiness

Abstract

Character strengths are broadly defined as consistent personality attributes that lead to a happy existence. In India, there are 1.7 nurses for every 1,000 people. Hospital personnel's well-being and health seem to be at threat in the majority of their working environment. So the goal of the present study was to identify character strengths among nurses and their role in the healthiness of nurses and this study also demonstrated the importance of allowing and ensuring the relevancy of character strengths in a hospital work environment, which will lead to greater job engagement and wellbeing. In this way, the present study was an attempt to assess and compare the character strengths and healthiness of nursing professionals.  A purposive sample of 60 nurses  (30 government and 30 private) was drawn from Jind and Rohtak. For measuring character strengths Kamlesh Singh and Rajneesh Choubisa and Leddy healthiness scale was used. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics(t-test) were used to assess and compare the character strengths and healthiness among nurses.