Occupational Fatigue: Relationship With Personality Traits and Decent Work

Annamaria Di Fabio; Andrea Svicher; Alessio Gori

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.742809

Occupational Fatigue: Relationship With Personality Traits and Decent Work

Front Psychol. 2021 Sep 8:12:742809. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.742809. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Annamaria Di Fabio¹, Andrea Svicher¹, Alessio Gori²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literatures and Psychology (Psychology Section), University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
² Department of Health Sciences, (Psychology Section), University of Florence, Florence, Italy.

Abstract

Psychology of working theory (PWT) and psychology of working framework (PWF) offered a psychological view of decent work. The present study examined the associations among personality traits, decent work and Occupational Fatigue Exhaustion Recovery Scale (OFER). Two hundred and thirty four participants filled out the Big Five Questionnaire, the Italian version of the Decent Work Scale, and the Italian version of the OFER Scale. Hierarchical regressions showed that decent work explained incremental variance beyond personality traits with respect to OFER both considering total score and its three dimensions (chronic fatigue, acute fatigue, persistent fatigue). The present study underlined the value of decent work in relation to occupational fatigue beyond the contributions of personality, in particular in relation to the dimensions of Adequate compensation and Free time and rest for less occupational fatigue (both as total and as dimensions).

Keywords: decent work; occupational acute fatigue; occupational chronic fatigue; occupational fatigue; occupational persistent fatigue; personality traits.