Personalidade, variáveis sociodemográficas e cansaço emocional em universitários do nordeste brasileiro

Abstract

The present research aimed to verify the predictive relationship between personality traits and emotional exhaustion in university students, controlling for the effects of age and gender. A non-probabilistic (convenience) sample of 843 university students from seven states in northeastern Brazil was used (M age = 23.42, SD = 6.60, ranging from 18 to 56 years). The instruments used were the Five-Factor Personality Inventory, the Emotional Exhaustion Scale, and sociodemographic questions. The results, through Pearson correlations and hierarchical multiple regression analysis, showed that emotional exhaustion can be explained by individual variables. It was found that age and gender contributed to the explanation of emotional exhaustion, while the traits of agreeableness and neuroticism further amplified this explanation. In the final model, the set of variables explained 29% of the total variation. It is concluded that emotional exhaustion is an important variable in explaining the mental health of students.