Background and Purpose: Job burnout is usually defined as a psychological syndrome that jobs related to human service are usually more than other jobs are affected. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of personality traits as predictors of job burnout in kindergarten teachers.
Method: The statistical population of the study was all teachers of kindergartens in Shiraz during the school year 2012-2013. A sample of 100 teachers was selected using multi-stage random sampling.This study was descriptive and correlational method. Job burnout inventory (1981) and NEO five-factor inventory (1985) were used to collect of data. For analyzing data, canonical correlation was used.
Results: Structural coefficients showed that the pattern of high scores in neuroticism (0.765) and the pattern of low scores in agreeableness (-0.743) and extraversion (-0.507) are correlated with a pattern of high scores in emotional exhaustion (0.940), depersonalization (0.619) and personal accomplishment (0.531). The structural coefficients obtained in the second function also show that a pattern of high scores in extraversion (0.854) are correlated with the pattern of low scores in depersonalization (-0.350) and personal accomplishment (0.747).
Conclusion: The present study highlights the importance of the effect of job burnout on the work of kindergarten educators, and emphasizes the need to pay attention to the variables affecting job burnout, including personality traits.