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Big-five Personality Traits as Correlate of Employees' Perception of Job Burnout among Industrial Workers of Ewekoro Cement Factory, Nigeria
by Adeboye Titus Ayinde and Ololade Doyinsola Taiwo

Abstract:
This study investigated the relationship between personality traits (big-five) and employees' perception of job burnout among workers in Ewekoro Cement Industry, Nigeria. The study also considered the impact of employee's marital status and gender on their perception of job burnout. All these were done with a view to increasing the knowledge of the individual on how to manage themselves in face of job stress within the organization. The study adopted a descriptive survey method and instruments used were psychological scales: Personality Scale and Perceived Job Burnout Scale. A total number of 250 questionnaires were administered to the workers of Ewekoro Cement Industry using stratified random sampling techniques for the study. The respondents in this study were 228 employees comprising 139 males (61.0%) and 89 females (39.0%). Also 73 (32.0%) of the respondents were within the age of 21-30 years, 101 (44.3%) were within the age of 31-40 years while 54 (23.7%) were within the age of 40 years and above. The results of the hypotheses tested revealed that there was no significant relationship between personality traits and employees? perception of job burnout [(1.120) = 2.42, P-val >0.01]. It was also revealed that there was no significant difference between marital status and employees' perception of job burnout [r (0.187) = 2.29, P-val > 0.05]. However, there was a significant gender difference in perception of job burnout among the workers [t-cal= (3.225), t-tab = (1.658), P- val< (0.05)]. The study concluded that employees' personality traits and marital status have no relationship with their perception of job burnout, except gender. The results were discussed with reference to the existing relevant studies. Based on this outcome, implication, conclusions were drawn and recommendations were made.

Keywords: personality traits; job burnout; perception, gender and marital status

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