Personality traits and self-esteem in association with career innovation

The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between personality traits and selfesteemwith career innovation in working people with correlation-based quantitative methods.For this purpose, we selected at convenience a sample of ۱۱۰ employees (۶۱ women and ۴۹men) by simple random sampling method. The research variables were measured by thequestionnaires of five major factors of McCray and Costa's short form personality, Eysenckself-esteem, and Career Innovation Questionnaire. We used the statistical method ofmultivariate linear regression and Pearson correlation and statistical software of SPSS version۲۳ to analyze statistical data. The findings showed that there was a significant correlationbetween self-esteem and career innovation with a correlation coefficient of ۰.۳۵ and asignificance level less than ۰.۰۱. As a result, there is a significant relationship between selfesteemand career innovation. The findings for predicting career innovation based onpersonality traits and self-esteem are as follows: self-esteem is of a significance level less than۰.۰۱, extroversion with a significance level less than ۰.۰۱, conscientiousness with asignificance level less than ۰.۰۱. According to the corrected determination coefficient, thesubscales of neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreement, conscientiousness,and self-esteem predict ۲۸% of the variance of career innovation.

کلیدواژه ها:

personality traits ، self-esteem ، career innovation ، creativity