The relationship between personality, areas of work and burnout among social care workers in Ireland
Year: 2013
Type: report
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This study investigates the relationship between personality factors, work satisfaction \nand burnout in the profession of social care workers in Ireland. The study was a crosssectional\n design using an online survey completed by 85 Social Care Workers. Questions \nwere asked which measured personality factors, work satisfaction and burnout levels. \nCorrelation tests showed that total scores for work satisfaction was related to emotional \nexhaustion, depersonalisation and personal accomplishment. Neuroticism related to \nemotional exhaustion; agreeableness and conscientiousness to depersonalisation; and \nextraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness to personal accomplishment. In regression \nanalysis, specific work domains and personality factors accounted for 62.9% of the variance \nin emotional exhaustion; 32.1% variance in depersonalisation; and 31.4% variance in \npersonal accomplishment. Therefore, a combination of work-factors and personality-factors \nare predictive antecedents to burnout. Author keywords: burnout, social care worker, personality, worklife, work life, areas of work
Source: eSource (Dublin Business School)
Author: Gale Gilbert
Language: English
Topic: Stress and Burnout Research
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1488090332