The Relationship between Employeeś́ Personality Characteristics and Job Burnout in Sport and Youth General Office of West Azarbaijan

The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between employeeś́ personality big five factors and job burnout in youth & sport general office of west Azarbaijan. The present study was description-correlation. 58 employees of Sport and Youth general office of west Azarbaijan (Urmia, 2011) completed study instruments in this study: 1-The Maslach burnout inventory (MBI et al., 1981), contains 22 items that measures three subscales of job burnout: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and lack of a sense of personal accomplishment. 2- Big Five Inventory (BFI, John et al., 1991), with 44 items assess the 5 different dimensions of personality including conscientiousness, neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, and openness. Data were analyzed with one-sample kolmogrov-smirnov , Pearson Correlation coefficient, and Multiple linear regression in significance level of P≤0.05.Our findings indicate that there was a significance positive relationship between among neuroticism personality(r=0.46 p≤0.05) and job burnout. Also results indicated that there were a significance negative relationship among Agreeableness(r=-0.28 p≤0.05), Conscientiousness(r=-0.34 p≤0.05) and Openness to experience (r=-0.31 p≤0.05) with job burnout (p≤0.05). Also personality dimension can to expressed R2 =0.25 of job burnout Variance. Comparing these findings with other researches indicated that personalities characteristic’s (as a personal factor) effect on job burnout of employees.