Personality Traits Moderate the Effect of Workload Sources on Perceived Workload in Flying Column Police Officers

Previous research has suggested that personality traits of the Five Factor Model play a role in worker's response to workload. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of personality traits of first responders with their perceived workload in real-life tasks. A flying column of...

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Autores principales: Chiorri, Carlo, Garbarino, Sergio, Bracco, Fabrizio, Magnavita, Nicola
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4661321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26640456
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01835
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Garbarino, Sergio
Bracco, Fabrizio
Magnavita, Nicola
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description Previous research has suggested that personality traits of the Five Factor Model play a role in worker's response to workload. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of personality traits of first responders with their perceived workload in real-life tasks. A flying column of 269 police officers completed a measure of subjective workload (NASA-Task Load Index) after intervention tasks in a major public event. Officers' scores on a measure of Five Factor Model personality traits were obtained from archival data. Linear Mixed Modeling was used to test the direct and interaction effects of personality traits on workload scores once controlling for background variables, task type and workload source (mental, temporal and physical demand of the task, perceived effort, dissatisfaction for the performance and frustration due to the task). All personality traits except extraversion significantly interacted at least with one workload source. Perceived workload in flying column police officers appears to be the result of their personality characteristics interacting with the workload source. The implications of these results for the development of support measures aimed at reducing the impact of workload in this category of workers are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-46613212015-12-04 Personality Traits Moderate the Effect of Workload Sources on Perceived Workload in Flying Column Police Officers Chiorri, Carlo Garbarino, Sergio Bracco, Fabrizio Magnavita, Nicola Front Psychol Psychology Previous research has suggested that personality traits of the Five Factor Model play a role in worker's response to workload. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of personality traits of first responders with their perceived workload in real-life tasks. A flying column of 269 police officers completed a measure of subjective workload (NASA-Task Load Index) after intervention tasks in a major public event. Officers' scores on a measure of Five Factor Model personality traits were obtained from archival data. Linear Mixed Modeling was used to test the direct and interaction effects of personality traits on workload scores once controlling for background variables, task type and workload source (mental, temporal and physical demand of the task, perceived effort, dissatisfaction for the performance and frustration due to the task). All personality traits except extraversion significantly interacted at least with one workload source. Perceived workload in flying column police officers appears to be the result of their personality characteristics interacting with the workload source. The implications of these results for the development of support measures aimed at reducing the impact of workload in this category of workers are discussed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4661321/ /pubmed/26640456 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01835 Text en Copyright © 2015 Chiorri, Garbarino, Bracco and Magnavita. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Magnavita, Nicola
Personality Traits Moderate the Effect of Workload Sources on Perceived Workload in Flying Column Police Officers
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title_short Personality Traits Moderate the Effect of Workload Sources on Perceived Workload in Flying Column Police Officers
title_sort personality traits moderate the effect of workload sources on perceived workload in flying column police officers
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4661321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26640456
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01835
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