Relationship between the Big Five Personality Traits with Work Involvement and Performance of Counsellors in Government Sectors

Every year, Big Five personality traits or five-factor model (FFM) has gained attention not only from people working in psychological field, but also the people from other fields such as political sciences and economics who appreciate this model due to the model's encyclopedic factors in investigating an individual's personality.A trained and professional counsellor is even seen as someone who owns certain qualities and personality traits which are able to give positive impacts on self and clients.However, research involving personality traits of counsellors who are working in government sectors is still scarce, especially the research on the level of counsellors' work performance and involvement as well as the significance of personalilty traits with these two variables.Therefore, the main purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between counsellors' personality trait with their work involvement and performance.A simple random sampling method was utilised to select 105 counsellors who work in government sectors based in Selangor, Malaysia.Descriptive and inferential -Pearson Correlation -statistics were used to analyse the collected data.The findings showed that personality traits extraversion and openness to experience have low and positive significant relationship towards counsellors' work performance.Yet, only trait openness to experience has the low and positive significance on counsellors' work involvement.This research suggests the extension and development of the research on Big Five personality traits theory in order to improve the values and empirical proof of this research.