TY - JOUR ID - 6891 TI - The role of social support in suppressing the effect of job stress on personality traits JO - Iranian Journal of Health Psychology JA - IJOHP LA - en SN - 2783-2686 AU - roozbehani, abbas AU - Tarkhan, Morteza AU - Alipour, Ahmad AU - Saffarinia, Majid AD - phD student , Department of Psychology, PNU university,Tehran,Iran AD - Associate professor of Psychology.Department of Psychology, PNU University . Tehran, Iran AD - Professor of Psychology.Department of Psychology, PNU University . Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2020 PY - 2020 VL - 3 IS - 1 SP - 79 EP - 90 KW - Job stress KW - personality traits KW - Stress Suppression KW - Social Support KW - occupational health psychology DO - 10.30473/ijohp.2020.46936.1048 N2 - Objective: the present study aimed at studying the relationship between job stress and personality traits and also if the effect of job stress on personality traits was moderated by social support. Method: The populations consisted of offshore personnel working in Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) in Kharg Island. 234 participants using convenience sampling answered three questionnaires (job stress, very brief NEO-form, and perceived social support of family-scale). Four main hypotheses using structural equation analysis were examined. Results: The findings showed a predictive effect between the personality traits and job stress except for openness to experience such that job stress had an increasing effect on neuroticism and a decreasing effect on extraversion, agreeability, and conscientiousness. Social support, on the other hand, as a moderator decreased the effects of job stress on personality traits except for openness to experience, extraversion, and agreeability such that it decreased neuroticism and increased conscientiousness. Conclusion: the results generally revealed the predictive effects of job stress on personality traits and showed that social support, as a buffer, can reduce the effects of job stress on personality traits. The results were discussed based on the existing models on personality changes. UR - https://ijohp.journals.pnu.ac.ir/article_6891.html L1 - https://ijohp.journals.pnu.ac.ir/article_6891_1d043cdaf62dd114258703ccba1b6a84.pdf ER -