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The relationship between burnout and personality

A case of Iranian translation students

 | Imam Reza International University
 | Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Published online: 22 February 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00075.ara
Abstract
This study is an attempt to address the issue of examining the relationship between burnout and personality among translation students. Recent trends in student/academic burnout have led to a proliferation of studies which have heightened the need for the exploration of this construct that is well-grounded in personality influences. Despite increasing concern over these two concepts, no report has been found so far surveying their association within the translation discipline. To this end, 73 Iranian translation students completed a 33-item student translator burnout scale and the 44-item Big Five Inventory of Personality. This was also accomplished by building a causal structural model through which the associations among these constructs were estimated. The results demonstrated that the proposed model has a good overall fit with the empirical data. Findings further provide evidence that there are significant correlations between agreeableness, neuroticism, and burnout.
Résumé
Cette étude tente d’aborder la question de la relation entre l’épuisement académique et la personnalité des étudiants en traduction. Les récentes tendances en matière d’épuisement académique ont abouti à une prolifération d’études qui ont renforcé la nécessité d’explorer cette notion, largement influencée par la personnalité. En dépit d’une préoccupation croissante pour ces deux concepts, aucun rapport d’étude n’a examiné à ce jour leur association dans la discipline de la traduction. Dans cette optique, 73 étudiants iraniens ont rempli un questionnaire de 33 questions sur l’épuisement académique des étudiants en traduction ainsi qu’un test sur les cinq grands facteurs de personnalité, basé sur 44 éléments. De plus, un modèle structurel causal a été élaboré et a permis d’évaluer les associations entre ces notions. Les résultats prouvent que le modèle proposé présente généralement une bonne complémentarité avec les données empiriques. Les résultats démontrent également qu’il existe des corrélations significatives entre l’agréabilité, le névrosisme et l’épuisement académique.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Review of the literature
  • 3.Methodology
    • 3.1Participants
    • 3.2Instruments
  • 4.Results
  • 5.Discussion
  • 6.Conclusion
  • References
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