Determinants of personality of the elderly’s professional activity

Abstract

This article reviews the influence of personality traits on the elderly’s level of professional activity. The empirical studies were conducted in Kujawsko-Pomorskie voievodship on a trial of 1231 persons. The respondents were asked to conduct the self-assessment of their own personality traits. The hypothesis has been formulated, that older people with a higher level of particular traits are at present more professionally active and also declare higher level of professional activity in the future. The five-factor theory of personality has been used to verify that hypothesis. It seems that the five-factor model of personality can be used to predict the elderly’s professional activity level and to make their profiling from this point of view/in this direction, also after acquiring pension entitlements, and in effect to define employers’ and employment services’ actions aimed at popularization of active aging through prolongation of professional activity.