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The purpose of this study is to determine whether there are statistically significant differences in unem-ployment anxiety levels of unemployed university graduates who are looking for a job in terms of vari-ous socio-demographic variables and to examine the effects of different personality traits on unemploy-ment anxiety. This research was conducted with 36.604 graduates of Çankırı Karatekin University, and 1261 people who stated that they were unemployed and looking for a job participated in the study. The research data were collected after job seeking university graduates answered the 36 survey ques-tions, and the established hypotheses were tested and the results were analyzed. According to the duration of job seeking university graduates, it has been observed that the unemployment anxiety of the job seekers between 1-3 years is higher than the other groups. It was found that the independent varia-bles of extraversion and openness to experience, which are among the personality traits, did not have a statistically significant effect on the unemployment anxiety dependent variable. It is observed that individuals with openness to experience and extroversion personality traits have less unemployment anxiety than others. It was determined that independent variables of compatibleness, responsibility and emotional balance has a statistically significant effect on unemployment anxiety. It was found that those who have personality traits of compatibleness, responsibility and emotional balance have more unemployment anxiety.

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