TITLE:
Burnout Levels and Personality Traits—The Case of Turkish Architectural Students
AUTHORS:
Gözde Tantekin Celik, Emel Laptali Oral
KEYWORDS:
Architectural Students’ Burnout; Five Factor Model; Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey; Personality
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.4 No.2,
February
7,
2013
ABSTRACT:
The aim of this research has been to investigate
the relationship between personality traits and burnout levels of architectural
undergraduate students. Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey (MBI) and Five
Factor Model were used to collect related data. Analysis of the collected data showed
variations in personality traits and burnout levels of students from first to fourth
year and revealed that education process was an important role player in personality
development and burnout levels of students. Architectural students tended to be
more “open to experience” and “extraverted” as they proceeded from the first year
to final year without having high levels of “emotional exhaustion”. “Emotional exhaustion”
was observed together with “neurotic” personality traits of students. Thus, one
of the key recommendations of this research is that university counselors should
plan and organize guidance programmes by focusing on individual requirements caused
by both the student's personality traits and demands of the university education
which may vary between both years and departments. Future work of this research
will thus focus on civil engineering and computer engineering students in order
to determine the effect of departmental differences on burnout levels of students
and guide counseling programmes within the University accordingly.