The relationship between personality type and occupational burnout case study: employees of esfarayen university of technology

This study is an attempt to survey the relationship between personality type and occupational burnout among the employees of Esfarayen University of Technology. To do so, 80 employees were selected through random sampling. To glean the required data, Mayers Bergerrs’ personality type indicator and Maslach occupational burnout inventory were used. The data were analyzed in SPSS using mean, variance, and the Pearson’ correlation coefficient. As the results showed ESFJ type had no significant relationship with occupational burnout, while the other types had such relationship. Except for INTP, ISFJ, and ISDP, the rest of the personality types had negative relationship with occupational burnout in the study group.