The Relation Between Personal Traits, Organisational Commitment and Burnout at Work

The aim of this article is to present relations between fire fighters’ personal traits, organisational commitment and burnout at work. The results of quantitative research showed that fire fighters with lower emotional stability tend to burnout at work much more than those who have higher emotional stability. The lower agreeableness, conscientiousness and extraversion impact fire fighters’ higher burnout at work. Fire fighters’ higher organisational commitment links to lower burnout. Fire fighters’ higher emotional stability links to higher organisational commitment. And the higher fire fighters’ empathy, agreeableness, conscientiousness and extraversion links to higher organisational commitment