Author(s)

Amna Khalil¹, Muhammad Majid Khan¹, Muhammad Ali Raza¹, Bahaudin G. Mujtaba^2*

¹COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
²Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA.

The main purpose of this research is to study the impact of personality on job burnout among educators. Additionally the role of emotional labor on the relationship of personality and burnout is also investigated. In this model, job burnout (exhaustion, depersonalization and lack of personal accomplishment) is a dependent variable; personality (extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, openness to experience and conscientiousness) is an independent variable, while emotional labor (surface acting and deep acting) is a mediating variable. To investigate the relationship among above stated variables, correlation and multiple regression analysis were conducted. Questionnaires were used to collect the data from 199 secondary level teachers of private schools. The results of correlation and multiple regression showed the negative impact of personality on burnout, positive impact of personality on emotional labor, and the negative impact of emotional labor on job burnout. Discussion, suggestions, implications, and recommendations selection and training are provided.

Personality Traits, Emotional Labor, Job Burnout, Teachers, Big Five

Khalil, A. , Majid Khan, M. , Ali Raza, M. and Mujtaba, B. (2017) Personality Traits, Burnout, and Emotional Labor Correlation among Teachers in Pakistan. Journal of Service Science and Management, 10, 482-496. doi: 10.4236/jssm.2017.106038.