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A Study of Personality Traits, viz., Extraversion and Introversion on Telecommuters' Burnout


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1 Department of Management Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra, India
2 Department of Biostatistics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, Islamic Republic of
     

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In this study with regard to employees' personality types, namely, extroverts and introverts based on Jung's typology Model, it is targeted to demonstrate which group has more congruencies to the features of telecommuting to experience less burnout result from the qualities of this type of workplace. Besides, the model of this study is inspired by person-environment fit theory. The samples were 86 females and 130 males from Ministry of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare of Iran. The teleworking burnout and personality questionnaires with 28 statements for gathering data; in addition, SPSS 16 and Lisrel 8.8 for descriptive and inferential statistics were applied. From given data, it was obvious there was a correlation between extraversion and burnout with correlation rate of 0.55, whereas introversion had zero effect on burnout with correlation rate of -0.13. It can be concluded introverted employees can face stresses resulting from telecommunication more easily than extroverted ones regarding differences between these two characteristics.

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Extraversion-Introversion Personality Traits, Telecommunication, Burnout.
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  • A Study of Personality Traits, viz., Extraversion and Introversion on Telecommuters' Burnout

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Authors

Rahil Meymandpour
Department of Management Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Zahra Bagheri
Department of Biostatistics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Abstract


In this study with regard to employees' personality types, namely, extroverts and introverts based on Jung's typology Model, it is targeted to demonstrate which group has more congruencies to the features of telecommuting to experience less burnout result from the qualities of this type of workplace. Besides, the model of this study is inspired by person-environment fit theory. The samples were 86 females and 130 males from Ministry of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare of Iran. The teleworking burnout and personality questionnaires with 28 statements for gathering data; in addition, SPSS 16 and Lisrel 8.8 for descriptive and inferential statistics were applied. From given data, it was obvious there was a correlation between extraversion and burnout with correlation rate of 0.55, whereas introversion had zero effect on burnout with correlation rate of -0.13. It can be concluded introverted employees can face stresses resulting from telecommunication more easily than extroverted ones regarding differences between these two characteristics.

Keywords


Extraversion-Introversion Personality Traits, Telecommunication, Burnout.

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