Big Five Personality Traits and Burnout Dimensions among College Students

What is it about?

Burnout occurs among students when they suddenly lose interest in their studies due to feeling physically and emotionally drained. They further experience emotional depletion due to study demands, distrustfulness, and detachment about their work. This study investigated if certain personality traits would make a student more prone and vulnerable to experiencing burnout.

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Why is it important?

The current study had five aims. First, to explore if a relationship exists between the Five-Factor Model personality traits and burnout according to Maslach’s Three Dimensions of Burnout specifically within a sample of Filipino college students. Second, to determine whether the relationships found replicated those in other studies. Third, the study investigates which FFM personality traits best predict the three dimensions of burnout, and whether the predictions of burnout are stronger at the level of whole factors or at the level of individual traits. Fourth, the study attempts to identify those FFM traits that might be most important for the development of burnout. Fifth, we present the percentage of student participants experiencing various levels of burnout. This information is of enormous value to clinicians, since it determines whether burnout should be considered relatively rare or relatively common within this population.