Assessing the Power of the HEXACO to Predict Professional Burnout Among Catholic Priests in Italy

Crea, G., Francis, L.J. and McKenna, U. (2024) Assessing the Power of the HEXACO to Predict Professional Burnout Among Catholic Priests in Italy. Journal of Religion and Health. ISSN 0022-4197

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Abstract

This study tests the application of the HEXACO among Catholic priests and the power of this six factor model of personality to predict scores on the Francis Burnout Inventory among priests. Data provided by 264 priests serving in Italy lead to two conclusions. In this population three of the six scales of the HEXACO failed to display adequate levels of internal consistency reliability (emotionality, agreeableness, openness to experience). High scores of extraversion and conscientiousness predicted higher scores of satisfaction in ministry. Low scores of extraversion, conscientiousness, and honesty and humility predicted higher scores of emotional exhaustion in ministry. The role of the honesty and humility factor in predicting negative affect but not positive affect supports the balanced affect model of professional burnout that views positive and negative affect as partly independent systems.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Published by Springer in 2024. This is an author accepted manuscript of a published open access article available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-024-02202-5. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.
Keywords:	balanced affect Francis Burnout Inventory Catholic priests Italy HEXACO
Depositing User:	Ursula Mckenna
Date Deposited:	27 Feb 2025 11:40
Last Modified:	27 Feb 2025 11:40
URI:	https://bgro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/1200

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