The Mediating Role of Intolerance to Uncertainty in the Effect of Conscientiousness Personality Trait on Anxiety about Unemployment

This study's main goal is to investigate how the conscientiousness personality trait, one of the five-factor personality types, affects unemployment anxiety and how intolerance of uncertainty mediates this relationship. A total of 458 university students—114 men and 344 women—participated in the study. The results showed that while there was a positive correlation between the personality trait of conscientiousness and both intolerance of uncertainty and unemployment anxiety, there was no significant correlation between intolerance of uncertainty and unemployment anxiety. Using the path analysis approach with the JAMOVİ statistical program to evaluate the study's hypotheses, it was discovered that intolerance of uncertainty did not significantly mediate the effect of conscientiousness on unemployment anxiety (b =.001, SE =.02, z = 0.09, p =.93). This findings suggest that when facing concern about unemployment, those with a conscientious personality attribute do not show any specific degrees of tolerance in uncertain circumstances. Keywords: University students, anxiety about unemployment, intolerance of uncertainty, conscientiousness