Correlation of psychological of burnout: Personality dimensions and psychological hardiness (case study: Hospital staff in Guilan province)

Burnout shows the reduction of person’s Compatibility with the stressors available in the workplace. This study has been done to explain the burnout and its relationship with five dimensions of personality and psychological hardiness between the hospital staff. The method is descriptive and correlational and in terms of objective belonged to the applied researches. In this paper the population contains all the hospital staffs of guilan province and between them 185 people were selected as a sample by random simple sampling method. The questionnaires used for collecting data were the “Geldard Burnout Inventory”, “Ahvaz Perfectionism Scale” and “Costa and McCrae Five Factor Inventory”. The data analysis was done by SPSS and Pearson correlation coefficient and the regression testing. The results showed that there is a significant positive relation between the burnout and two personal dimensions of neuroticism (r=0.406, p<0.01) and agreeableness (r=0.264, p<0.05). There isn’t a significant correlation between burnout and psychological hardiness (r=0.081, p<0.05). But the relation between psychological hardiness and neuroticism and extroversion is significant. So if the hospitals use the personality evaluation as a part of their selection and employment process, they can identify staff facing burnout and prevent this trauma.