Extraversion and Neuroticism in populations of shift workers on Diverse work patterns
K. Venu Achari*
Department of Zoology, *Govt Madan Lal Shukla PG College Seepat Bilaspur -495555 (India) Affiliated to Atal Bihari Vajpayee Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur -495001 (India) Email ID: kvenu99@rediffmail.com kvenuachari99@gmail.com ORCID: 0000-0002-0874-8852
ABSTRACT
We studied distribution of extraversion and neuroticism in a cohort of 481 shift workers (SWs), from different organizations with diverse shift-work patterns. The population of SWs consisted of 86 on running rotation (RR), 175 on weekly rotation (WR), 173 on quick rotation (QR), and 47 on split rotation (SR). We administered the Eyesenck’s Moudsley Personality Inventory (MPI) to all SWs to determine their extraversion and neuroticism traits. The Chi-square test revealed a significant association between extraversion-neuroticism and shift-work pattern. The preponderance of extrovert trait in the studied population of shift workers sampled from all groups, except SR, was noticed. The prevalence of neurotic trait was the least in QR group. However, in the WR group the frequencies of both extrovert and neurotic traits were higher. On the basis of present findings, it appears that shift workers on QR pattern are more tolerant as the prevalence of neurotic trait is the least in this group. This finds indirect favour from the concept that the higher level of extraversion is associated with lower health problems and greater adjustment to the shift work.