(b) Participants' personality and prevalence of burnout
| Emotional exhaustion | Depersonalization | Personal accomplishment | |||||
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| Low/average N (%) | High N (%)∗ | Low/average N (%) | High N (%)∗ | Average/high N (%) | Low N (%)∗ | ||
| Neuroticism# | VL, L, A | 875 (70.5) | 366 (29.5) | 856 (69) | 385 (31) | 576 (46.4) | 665 (53.6) |
| H, VH | 187 (37.9) | 307 (62.1) | 194 (39.3) | 300 (60.7) | 132 (26.7) | 362 (73.3) | |
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| Extraversion# | A, H, VH | 922 (64.6) | 506 (35.4) | 897 (62.8) | 531 (37.2) | 650 (45.5) | 778 (54.5) |
| L, VL | 140 (45.6) | 167 (54.4) | 153 (49.8) | 154 (50.2) | 58 (18.9) | 249 (81.1) | |
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| Openness# | A, H, VH | 839 (61.3) | 529 (38.7) | 843 (61.6) | 525 (38.4) | 609 (44.5) | 759 (55.5) |
| L, VL | 223 (60.8) | 144 (39.2) | 207 (56.4) | 160 (43.6) | 99 (27) | 268 (73) | |
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| Agreeableness# | A, H, VH | 865 (64.9) | 468 (35.1) | 871 (65.3) | 462 (34.7) | 583 (43.7) | 750 (56.3) |
| L, VL | 197 (49) | 205 (51) | 179 (44.5) | 223 (55.5) | 125 (31.1) | 277 (68.9) | |
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| Conscientiousness# | A, H, VH | 903 (63.8) | 513 (36.2) | 906 (64) | 510 (36) | 636 (44.9) | 780 (55.1) |
| L, VL | 159 (49.8) | 160 (50.2) | 144 (45.1) | 175 (54.9) | 72 (22.6) | 247 (77.4) | |
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| Number of negative personality traits | 0 | 524 (73) | 194 (27) | 533 (74.2) | 185 (25.8) | 395 (55) | 323 (45) |
| 1 | 296 (60.9) | 190 (39.1) | 283 (58.2) | 203 (41.8) | 196 (40.3) | 290 (59.7) | |
| 2 | 148 (50.9) | 143 (49.1) | 144 (49.5) | 147 (50.5) | 74 (25.4) | 217 (74.6) | |
| 3 | 66 (42.9) | 88 (57.1) | 61 (39.6) | 93 (60.4) | 31 (20.1) | 123 (79.9) | |
| ≥4 | 28 (32.6) | 58 (67.4) | 29 (33.7) | 57 (66.3) | 12 (14) | 74 (86) | |
∗Higher risk of burnout.
#Categories for personality factors relative to risk of burnout: VL: very low; L: low; A: average; H: high; VH: very high.