Fig. 2.

Personality-burnout model: A more detailed schematic representation of the interplay between personality, health behaviors, and burnout. Personality, by definition, would incorporate elements that are predictive of behaviors (including health-oriented behaviors). Should health behaviors independently be predictive of burnout, one can appreciate how personality, through a more comprehensive incorporation of predictive elements would represent a better prediction model of burnout. The background boxes (in shades of gray) indicate the functional areas of Mayer's Personality Systems Framework that correspond to each of the model’s components that are contained within these boxes. Three constructs of the Big Five Personality Trait Model (conscientiousness, extroversion, and neuroticism) are shown to exemplify how such background personality traits could positively (+) or negatively (−) influence the various parts of the pathway between external stimuli and burnout.