Personality Traits that Foster Ambulance Workers’ Professional Performance

The present study explores the links between personality factors and the professional performance of four different categories of ambulance workers: doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and dispatchers. The 458 participants’ scores for personality factors (according to the Big Five Model), sensation seeking and time perspective scales were compared among professional and performance based groups. Results revealed significant differences among professional groups regarding neuroticism, openness to experience and time perspectives. Also, significant differences were found between high-level and low-level performance groups of nurses and dispatchers.