خلاصة:
Objective: the present study aimed at studying the relationship between job stress and personality traits and also if the effect of job stress on personality traits was moderated by social support. Method: The populations consisted of offshore personnel working in Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) in Kharg Island. 234 participants using convenience sampling answered three questionnaires (job stress, very brief NEO-form, and perceived social support of family-scale). Four main hypotheses using structural equation analysis were examined. Results: The findings showed a predictive effect between the personality traits and job stress except for openness to experience such that job stress had an increasing effect on neuroticism and a decreasing effect on extraversion, agreeability, and conscientiousness. Social support, on the other hand, as a moderator decreased the effects of job stress on personality traits except for openness to experience, extraversion, and agreeability such that it decreased neuroticism and increased conscientiousness. Conclusion: the results generally revealed the predictive effects of job stress on personality traits and showed that social support, as a buffer, can reduce the effects of job stress on personality traits. The results were discussed based on the existing models on personality changes.
ملخص الجهاز:
Result: The findings showed a predictive effect between the personality traits and job stress except for openness to experience such that stress had an increasing effect on neuroticism and a decreasing effect on extraversion, agreeability, and conscientiousness.
Family support, on the other hand, as a moderator can decrease the effects of job stress on personality traits except for openness to experience, extraversion, and agreeability such that it can decrease neuroticism and increase conscientiousness.
On the other hand, it is suggested that social support, either in the form of family support or coworker and supervisor support, can weaken the relationship between stressor and personal well-being through reducing the stress perception (Viswesvaran, Sanchez, & Fisher, 1999; Kossek, Pichler, Bodner & Hammer, 2011; Chen, Wong & Yu, 2008).
According to the previous findings, the present study tested four hypotheses: 1- Job stress affects personality traits so that it increases neuroticism and reduces extraversion and conscientiousness.
33, 1, 35, %%انتهای جدول%%] that the model is acceptable (ML-χ2 =512/024, DF=321 p=0/000; CFI=0/87; TLI=0/85; GFI= 0/87; AGFI= 0/83; RMSEA=0/05), indicating that both job stress and social support have relationship with personality traits in interaction with each other.
In general, it can be said that the model presented in this study has conformity with the observed data, indicating that job stress has a relationship with social support and personality traits, and affects them.
The results of the present study also showed that social support can be effective in moderating the impacts of job stress on personality features (neuroticism and conscientiousness).