Influence of occupational stress and personality traits on job burnout of nurses in psychiatry-specialized hospitals in Wenzhou
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-2907.2016.19.013
- VernacularTitle:温州市精神专科医院护士职业压力、人格特征对职业倦怠的影响
- Author:
Chongli ZHANG
1
;
Xiuli LI
;
Yulian JIN
;
Xianqiong JI
;
Yafang YANG
Author Information
1. 325005 温州市第七人民医院二十四病区
- Keywords:
Nurses;
Job burnout;
Occupational stress;
Personality traits;
Psychiatry-specialized hospital;
General hospital
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2016;22(19):2714-2717,2718
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To explore the influence of occupational stress and personality traits on job burnout of nurses from psychiatry-specialized hospitals and general hospitals in Wenzhou .Methods 110 nurses from psychiatry-specialized hospitals and 103 nurses from general hospitals in Wenzhou were surveyed by questionnaires of Nurses′Occupational Pressure Source Scale , Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI).Independent-Samples t Test was used for comparison of occupational stress , personality traits and job burnout of the two groups , and multiple regression analysis was used to analyze the data.Results Total average scores of occupational stress of nurses in psychiatry-specialized hospitals were (2.57 ±0.37), higher than the those of nurses in general hospitals (2.19 ±0.42), (t=2.158, P<0.05). Scores of the dimension of emotional stability in EPQ of nurses in psychiatry-specialized hospitals were (54.68 ± 9.04), higher than those of nurses in general hospitals (45.16 ±10.39), (t=2.184, P<0.05).For nurses in psychiatry-specialized hospitals, scores of emotional exhaustion in MBI were (28.40 ±5.50), and scores of depersonalization were (10.59 ±3.31), higher than those of nurses in general hospitals; while scores in dimension of low sense of achievement were (22.16 ±3.45), lower than those of nurses in general hospitals (t=2.381, 2.330, -7.694; P<0.05).It was revealed in multiple regression analysis that for nurses in psychiatry-specialized hospitals , emotional stability had a positive predictive function on emotional exhaustion ;working environment , resources and emotional stability had a positive predictive function on depersonalization ;nursing profession and work had a negative predictive function on low sense of achievement ;for nurses in general hospitals, patient-caring had a positive predictive function on emotional exhaustion;workload and time allocation had a positive predictive function on depersonalization; patient-caring, emotional stability, workload and time allocation had a negative predictive function on low sense of achievement .Conclusions Degree of job burnout of nurses in psychiatry-specialized hospitals is higher than that of general hospital nurses .The influences of occupational stress and personality traits on job burnout have a synergistic effect .
