The mediating role of Psychological Resilience in the relationship between neuroticism and psychological burnout among students at the Islamic University of Madina

Abstract

The current study aimed to reveal the levels of neuroticism, Psychological Resilience, and psychological burnout among Saudi students at the Islamic University of Madina. And identifying the mediating role of Psychological Resilience in the relationship between neuroticism and psychological burnout. The study followed the predictive descriptive approach, and the researcher used the neuroticism scale derived from the Big Five Personality Factors Scale by Costa and McCra (1992), which was translated into Arabic by Al-Ansari (1997), and the Psychological Resilience Scale by Smith and his colleagues (2006). And Schaufeli and his colleagues (2020) for psychological burnout. The study tools were applied to a stratified sample consisting of (186) students from theoretical majors at the university. The results revealed a low level of neuroticism, and moderate levels of Psychological Resilience and psychological burnout among the sample members. The study also revealed that the proposed model that involves a mediating role for Psychological Resilience can be used to predict the causal relationship between neuroticism and psychological burnout among Islamic University students.