Abstract
The following study aims to verify whether psychosocial risk conditions determine a variation in personality traits. The sample consisted of 301 teachers, comprising 84 men (27.1%) and 217 women (72.9%). The Big Five Questionnaire (BFQ) was used to measure personality traits, while the Organizational and Psychosocial Risk Assessment (OPRA) questionnaire was used to measure psychosocial risk. The ANOVA results notice the change of BFQ traits. These are significant (Extraversion = 0.000; Agreeableness = 0.001; Neuroticism = 0.000; Openness = 0.017), with the exception of the Conscientiousness trait (Conscientiousness = 0.213). The research supports the approach of seeing personality as the result of the interaction between the individual and the environment; this position is also recognized by work-related stress literature. Stress conditions can lead to a change in the state of health and possibly determine the onset of work-related stress diseases. In the future, it would be useful to start a series of longitudinal studies to understand in greater detail the variability of personality traits due to changes in the Risk Index.
Highlights
Teaching is a challenging and undoubtedly difficult profession [1] the current literature shows that it is a high-stress occupation [2,3,4,5]
We initially analysed the correlation between the risk index (RI), the inventory of risk sources (ISR) and the inventory of psychophysical health (MPH) with the five personality traits
As the scores of the variables relative to the Inventory of Source of Risk (ISR) and Mental and Physical Health (MPH) increase, there is a decrease in the scores of the traits of the Big Five Questionnaire (BFQ)
Summary
Teaching is a challenging and undoubtedly difficult profession [1] the current literature shows that it is a high-stress occupation [2,3,4,5]. The constructs of “locus of control” and “A and B personalities”, the Big Five traits and self-efficacy theory [16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28] represent attempts to understand those individual properties as either vulnerabilities to disease or, on the other hand, methods of resilience This working approach is significantly conditioned by a classic tradition which, in some ways, is affected by the absence of preventive strategies in the workplace, since it focuses on the detection of nosographic categories that can be framed in diagnostic manuals such as the DSV and ICD-11. This approach proposes, through the concept of diagnosis, an individualistic and contextual perspective in the development of a pathology or, more generally, of a condition of
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