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Abstract : Relationships between Personality and Burn-Out: An Empirical Study with Helping Professions’ Workers

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Relationships between Personality and Burn-Out: An Empirical Study with Helping Professions’ Workers
Pages 10-19
Paola Magnano, Anna Paolillo and Carmine Barrano

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Published: 30 June 2015

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Abstract: Stress-related illnesses, such as burnout, had an increase over the last decade, even though not every employee, in the same workplace, shows burnout symptoms, suggesting that individual factors may contribute to this phenomenon. In fact, even though research on burnout generally has tended to explore the organizational factors associated with this condition, which play certainly an important role, however we cannot ignore the relationship between burnout and personality. This study explored the relationship between personality and burn-out in 144 helping professions’ workers. Personality was measured by the Big Five Questionnaire; burn-out was measured by the Link Burn-out Questionnaire. Results confirm a relationship between the two constructs, partially supporting previous research that explained burn-out not only by organizational factors, but also by individual dimensions.

Keywords: Work-related stress, helping professions, Big Five model, burnout.

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Benigno E. Aguirre EICDr. Benigno E. Aguirre, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
Core Faculty
Disaster Research Center
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
USA
Dr. Aguirre is a Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware and a core faculty member of the Disaster Research Center. At the present time he is working on the human behavior dimensions of fire and on the validation of agent based computer simulation models using social behavioral processes.
Professor Aguirre obtained his Ph.D. in Sociology at Ohio State University. His specializations include Collective Behavior and Social Movements, Sociology of Disasters, and Migration and Ethnic Relations. He has taught courses such as Disasters and Development, Environmental Movements, Collective Behavior and Social Movement; Introduction to Sociology, Social problems, International Migration, American Minority Relations, and Qualitative Methods. He has received three Ful bright Awards and is past president of the Disaster Committee of the International Sociological Association.
Professor Aguirre is a member of the American Sociological Association, International Sociological Association, Society for the Study of Social Problems, and Southwestern Social Science Association, and an editorial member of the Social Science Quarterly, Disasters, and other journals. He is also a manuscript reviewers for a number of other journals.

International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Research | Volume 1

International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Research

Table of Contents

Volume 1, 2015

open-access

Contributions of Ordinary Citizens Towards Development of a Society: The Case of Bangladesh - Pages 144-153
Ishtiaq Hossain

Employment Experiences of Visible Minority Immigrant Women: A Literature Review - Pages 134-143
Bharati Sethi and Allison Williams

Limits of the Regulatory State Idea: Science and the Cultural Constitution of Capitalist States - Pages 119-133
Patrick Carroll

Strengths and Dysfunctionalities of Formative Assessment: A Short Analysis from the Perspective of Romanian Education - Pages 114-118
Valerica Anghelache

An Analysis of Five Factors of Personality Traits of Turkish Late Adolescents According to Computer Anxiety - Pages 108-113
Sevda Aslan

Patentable Subject Matter: Comparison between French and Jordanian Laws - Pages 102-107
Iriqat Mohammed

Accounting for the Response-Shift: Pre-Service Teacher-Efficacy Development in Immersive Learning - Pages 90-101
Winnie Mucherah and Kendra Edwards Thomas

Spiritual Connections and Complexities in Rural Communities: A Case Study of Annang Farmers in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria - Pages 78-89
Valerie Aphie Solomon, Margaret Abba Yaro and Ifiok David Ekong

The Correlation Analysis between Bullying and Experiences in Close Relationships in High School Students - Pages 74-77
Sevda Aslan

The Caring Organization: Singularity, Incompleteness and Responsibility or why 5+1 is not always 6 - Pages 64-73
Ignaas Devisch

Who Pays for the “Social Cost” of Labor? - Pages 57-63
Rojhat B. Avsar

“It Puts us in our Students’ Shoes”: Listening to Voices from Teacher Candidates on Their Test-Taking Experience - Pages 46-56
Liying Cheng and Jia Ma

Time to Rethink ‘Orphans and Vulnerable Children’? Findings from a Phenonenological Study in Uganda - Pages 30-45
Gloria K. Seruwagi

The Limits of Scientific Gaze: Exploring the Contradictions of Contagion, 2011 - Pages 20-29
Maximiliano E. Korstanje and Geoffrey Skoll

Relationships between Personality and Burn-Out: An Empirical Study with Helping Professions’ Workers - Pages 10-19
Paola Magnano, Anna Paolillo and Carmine Barrano

The Influence of Delay and Item Difficulty in Criminal Justice Systems on Eyewitness Confidence and Accuracy - Pages 1-9
Jacqueline M. Wheatcroft, Graham F. Wagstaff and Brian Manarin

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Abdulsalam Al Hadabi Abdulsalam Al-Hadabi
(Amran University, Amran,
Yemen)

dummy Sevda Aslan
(University of Kirikkale, Kirikkale, Turkey)

slika prof tatjana Tatjana Atanasoska
(University St Kliment Ohridsk, Bitola, Republic of Macedonia)

Rojhat B. Avsar Rojhat B. Avsar
(Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA)

Rozumah Baharudin Rozumah Baharudin
(Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia)

Ana Vitoria Ana Vitoria Baptista
(Queen Mary University of London, London, UK)

dummy Ndoma James Brown
(Cross River University of Technology, Calabar, Nigeria)

Vernon Burton Vernon Burton
(Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA)

dummy Ismail Çakir
(Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey)

Patrick Carroll Patrick Carroll
(University of California, Davis, CA, USA)

Abdulsalam Al Hadabi Mariana Adelaide Vieira Gonçalves Costa
(University of Minho, Braga, Portugal)

Giuliana Giuliana Dettori
(National Research Council of Italy, Genoa, Italy)

Hale A. Erden Hale A. Erden
(Hala Sultan Religious College, Cyprus, Turkey)

waynand Yaghoob Foroutan
(University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran)

waynand Wynand Grobler
(North-West University (NWU), Vanderbijlpark, South Africa)

Wardah d. Guimba Wardah d. Guimba
(Mindanao State University, Marawi City, Philippines)

istiqahussain Ishtiaq Hossain
(International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Vlasta Hus Vlasta Hus
(University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia)

Kittisak Jermsittiparser Kittisak Jermsittiparsert
(Rangsit University, Pathumthani, Thailand)

Zerrin E.H. Kahraman Zerrin E.H. Kahraman
(Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey)

Mohammed Khatib Mohammed Khatib
(Al Quds University, Jerusalem, Palestine)

victor Victor T. King
(University of Leeds, Leeds, UK)

victor Marija Ljakoska
(Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, North Macedonia)

Paola Magnano Paola Magnano
(Kore University of Enna, Enna, Italy)

Paola Magnano Bashar H. Malkawi
(University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE)

Ahmed Matarneh Ahmed Matarneh
(Mutah University, Amman, Jordan)

Begona Montero Begoña Montero-Fleta
(Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain)

Begona Montero Khushbakht Qaiser
(University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan)

N.F. Oyman Serteller N.F. Oyman Serteller
(Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey)

dummy Anghelache Valerica
(Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, Galati, Romania)

dummy Lei Wang
(Xuzhou University of Technology, Xuzhou, China)

Zanariah Zanne Zanariah Zanne
(Universiti Teknikal Malaysia, Melaka, Malaysia)