Pagalbą teikiančiųjų profesinio gyvenimo kokybės, rūpinimosi savimi bei asmenybės bruožų sąsajos / ; The relationships between help providers' professional quality of life, self-care and personality traits.

Help providers are in regular contact with people experiencing trauma and crises. This involvement can result in symptoms of secondary traumatic stress and burnout, impairing helper’s professional quality of life and work effectiveness which in turn may be detrimental to clients and other people in helper’s life. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between the professional quality of life, self-care and personality traits of help providers – psychologists and social workers. This study involved 173 professionals: 77 psychologists (44 %) and 96 social workers (55 %) (9 men and 164 women, age M = 41.44). Used scales: the Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL 5), the Big Five Inventory (BFI-2) and the Self-Care Assessment Worksheet (SCAW). A cross-sectional correlation study was conducted. The study found that psychologists were more involved in self-care practices than social workers. A bigger proportion of social workers experienced higher levels of burnout and secondary traumatic stress compared to psychologists. Burnout was a key predictive factor for the risk of secondary traumatic stress. Burnout also predicted lower compassion satisfaction, while higher compassion satisfaction predicted less burnout. Self-care was positively predicted by openness to experience and negatively predicted by neuroticism. Future research is needed to identify the moderating and mediating factors between self-care and personality traits for the professional quality of life of psychologists and social workers.