The Moderating Role of General Self-Efficacy on the Effect of Employees’ Dark Personality Traits on Burnout

Year 2020, Volume: 9 Issue: 1, 144 - 154, 27.01.2020

Emrah Özsoy Kadir Ardıç

https://doi.org/10.33206/mjss.509429

Cited By: 8

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to test the moderating role of general self-efficacy on the effect of dark personality traits (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) on burnout. In this context, a total of 182 employees from a private sector enterprise operating in Sakarya participated in the study. Hayes's (2013) PROCESS model was used to test the moderating role of general self-efficacy on the effect of dark personality traits on burnout. According to the findings of the study, it was found that general self-efficacy had a significant moderating role on the effect of narcissism only on burnout global and emotional exhaustion. General self-efficacy did not play a moderating role on the effect of other variables (Dark Triad global, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) on burnout.

Keywords

Dark Personality Traits, Burnout, General Self-efficacy

Çalışanların Karanlık Kişilik Özelliklerinin Tükenmişliğe Etkisinde Genel Öz-Yeterliliğin Düzenleyici Rolü

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın
amacı çalışanların karanlık kişilik özelliklerinin (narsisizm, Makyavelizm ve
psikopati) tükenmişliğe etkisinde genel öz-yeterliliğin düzenleyici rolünün
test edilmesidir. Bu kapsamda Sakarya’da faaliyet gösteren bir özel sektör
işletmesinden toplamda 182 çalışan araştırmaya dâhil olmuştur. Çalışanların
karanlık kişilik özelliklerinin tükenmişliğe etkisinde genel öz-yeterliliğin düzenleyici
rolünün tespit edilmesi için Hayes’in (2013) PROCESS modelinden
yararlanılmıştır. Araştırma bulgularına göre sadece narsisizmin duygusal
tükenmeye etkisinde, genel öz-yeterliliğin anlamlı bir şekilde düzenleyici
etkisi olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Harici değişkenlerin (Karanlık Üçlü toplam
skor, Makyavelizm, psikopati) tükenmişliğe etkisinde, genel öz-yeterlilik
düzenleyici rol oynamamıştır. 

Keywords

Karanlık Kişilik, Tükenmişlik, Genel Öz-yeterlilik

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