Contribution of the Big Five Personality Factors in predicting psychological hardiness among counselors working in providing psychosocial support for refugees in Jordan

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the level of psychological hardiness and the big five factors of the dominant personality, and to reveal the contribution of those factors in predicting psychological hardiness among counselors working in providing psychosocial support to refugees in Jordan. The study sample consisted of 110 counselors, they were chosen by the purposive method. The researchers used a questionnaire as the study instrument that consisted of a sixty item of the big five personality factors scale and a twenty-six-item Psychological Hardiness scale. The results of the study showed the level of psychological hardiness was at a high level. The big five factors of dominant personality among the psychological counselors are in order: conscientiousness, openness, extraversion, agreeableness, all of them at a medium level, then neuroticism at a low level. The results also showed that the big five personality factors explained (48.3%) as a statistically significant predictor of counselor’s psychological hardiness. the Big Five Personality Factors; psychological hardiness; psychological counselors; psychosocial support for refugees