Burnout and Engagement: Personality Profiles in Nursing Professionals
The burnout syndrome, which affects many healthcare workers, has recently attracted wide interest due to the severe repercussions related to its effects. Although job factors determine its development, not all individuals exposed to the same work conditions show burnout, which demonstrates the impor...
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| author | Pérez Fuentes, María Del Carmen Molero Jurado, María del Mar Martos Martínez, África Gázquez Linares, José Jesús |
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| description | The burnout syndrome, which affects many healthcare workers, has recently attracted wide interest due to the severe repercussions related to its effects. Although job factors determine its development, not all individuals exposed to the same work conditions show burnout, which demonstrates the importance of individual variables, such as personality. The purpose of this study was to determine the personality characteristics of a sample of nursing professionals based on the Big Five model. After having determined the personality profiles, we aimed to analyze the differences in burnout and engagement based on those profiles. The sample was made up of 1236 nurses. An ad hoc questionnaire was prepared to collect the sociodemographic data and the Brief Burnout Questionnaire, the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale and the Big Five Inventory-10 were used. The results showed that the existence of burnout in this group of workers is associated negatively with extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to experience, and it is associated positively with the neuroticism personality trait. These personality factors showed the opposite patterns with regard to engagement. Three different personality profiles were also found in nursing personnel, in which professionals who had a profile marked by strong neuroticism and low scores on the rest of the personality traits were the most affected by burnout. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-76442023-04-12T19:42:56Z Burnout and Engagement: Personality Profiles in Nursing Professionals Pérez Fuentes, María Del Carmen Molero Jurado, María del Mar Martos Martínez, África Gázquez Linares, José Jesús personality burnout engagement Big Five healthcare personnel The burnout syndrome, which affects many healthcare workers, has recently attracted wide interest due to the severe repercussions related to its effects. Although job factors determine its development, not all individuals exposed to the same work conditions show burnout, which demonstrates the importance of individual variables, such as personality. The purpose of this study was to determine the personality characteristics of a sample of nursing professionals based on the Big Five model. After having determined the personality profiles, we aimed to analyze the differences in burnout and engagement based on those profiles. The sample was made up of 1236 nurses. An ad hoc questionnaire was prepared to collect the sociodemographic data and the Brief Burnout Questionnaire, the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale and the Big Five Inventory-10 were used. The results showed that the existence of burnout in this group of workers is associated negatively with extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to experience, and it is associated positively with the neuroticism personality trait. These personality factors showed the opposite patterns with regard to engagement. Three different personality profiles were also found in nursing personnel, in which professionals who had a profile marked by strong neuroticism and low scores on the rest of the personality traits were the most affected by burnout. 2020-01-20T09:42:34Z 2020-01-20T09:42:34Z 2019-02-27 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2077-0383 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/7644 en https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/8/3/286 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | personality burnout engagement Big Five healthcare personnel Pérez Fuentes, María Del Carmen Molero Jurado, María del Mar Martos Martínez, África Gázquez Linares, José Jesús Burnout and Engagement: Personality Profiles in Nursing Professionals |
| title | Burnout and Engagement: Personality Profiles in Nursing Professionals |
| title_full | Burnout and Engagement: Personality Profiles in Nursing Professionals |
| title_fullStr | Burnout and Engagement: Personality Profiles in Nursing Professionals |
| title_full_unstemmed | Burnout and Engagement: Personality Profiles in Nursing Professionals |
| title_short | Burnout and Engagement: Personality Profiles in Nursing Professionals |
| title_sort | burnout and engagement: personality profiles in nursing professionals |
| topic | personality burnout engagement Big Five healthcare personnel |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/7644 |
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