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Objective To develop a model of job burnout and stress related personality factors among aviators using SEM. Method Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey and 3 personality questionnaires were conducted in 167 pilots. Results Structural equation model (SEM) shows negative impact of extraversion, internal control, and hardiness on job burnout (−0.16, −0.11, −0.24), positive impact of psychoticism, neuroticism, and external control on job burnout (0.40, 0.73, 0.13). The fitness indices indicate that the structural model is proper (RMSEA = 0.060 < 0.08). Conclusion The findings suggest that MBI-GS is acceptable in research on pilots’ job burnout. Emotion stability is the predictor of job burnout. According to ASLOC, pilots that feeling low level of control on safety maybe susceptible to job burnout, which accords with the fact that aviation is high risky.
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Liu, Q. et al. (2016). A Structural Equation Model of Job Burnout and Stress-Related Personality Factors in Aviators. In: Long, S., Dhillon, B. (eds) Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering. MMESE 2016. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 406. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2323-1_13
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