AU - Tehrani H, AU - Shojayizade D, AU - Hoseiny SM, AU - Alizadegan Sh, TI - Relationship between Mental Health, personality Trait and Life Events in Nurses Working in Tehran Emergency Medical Service (Tehran 115) PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - IJN JN - IJN VO - 25 VI - 75 IP - 75 4099 - http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1248-en.html 4100 - http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1248-en.pdf SO - IJN 75 AB  -   Background and Aim : Work place stress affects the mental health, performance and safety of nurses and their patients in health care centers. These nurses enter the work environment with various personalities and experience many events in their lives. Accordingly this study aims to determine the relationship between the mental health, personality trait and life events in nurses working in Tehran Emergency Medical Service (Tehran 115).   Methods Materials : It was a descriptive correlational study. Two hundred nurses working in 115 Tehran Emergency service were randomly selected. Data was collected using General Health Questionnaire (GHO), scaling of life events and standard form of personality type and analyzed using SPSS-PC (v.16).   Results : there was a significant relationship between mental health and personality trait and also life events (p=0.000). mental health status of bachelor nurses was better than operating room and anesthetic technicians (p CP - IRAN IN - LG - eng PB - IJN PG - 52 PT - Research YR - 2012