title: The Big Five Personality Traits and French Firefighter Burnout: The Mediating Role of Achievement Goals.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We investigated the associations between the Big Five personality traits and occupational burnout in firefighters and the mediating role of achievement goals in this relationship.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two hundred twenty male firefighters from 20 to 62 years old participated and mediation analyses were performed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results showed that neuroticism was positively related to the three dimensions of burnout, both directly and through mastery avoidance goals. Mastery approach goals mediated the relationships between conscientiousness and physical fatigue and between openness to experience and physical fatigue.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Three of the Big Five personality traits, neuroticism, conscientiousness and openness to experience, and achievement goals, may be important factors in understanding and preventing firefighter burnout.
authors.affiliation: University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis and University of Toulon, Lamhess, France.
authors.forename: Jérôme
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vaulerin
authors.forename: Serge S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Colson
authors.forename: Mélanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Emile
authors.forename: Stéphanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Scoffier-Mériaux
authors.forename: Fabienne
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: d'Arripe-Longueville
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000523:psychology*; D005221:Fatigue / Q000523:psychology; D061388:Firefighters / Q000523:psychology*; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D000075384:Neuroticism; D010551:Personality; D065840:Protective Factors; D012307:Risk Factors; D055815:Young Adult