Effects of personality and coping style on clinicians'job burnout:regression and path analysis

VernacularTitle:临床医生人格特征、应对方式与职业倦怠关系的回归及路径分析
Author: Miao LIU ; Hui MA ; Ning ZHANG
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Clinicians; Job burnout; Personality; Coping style
From: Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science 2012;(12):1115-1118
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To explore the relationships among personality,coping style and clinicians' job burnout.Methods 1569 clinicians were investigated with Chinese Maslach Burnout Inventory,Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and Simple Coping Style Questionnaire.The data were performed with regression and path analysis.Results The proportion of burnout was 72.4％,the proportion of slight burnout was 36.5 ％,the proportion of moderate burnout was 31.2％ and the proportion of high burnout was 4.7％.When taking demographic variables into consideration,more introvert and neuroticism indicated increasing tendency of emotional exhaustion.More psychoticism,neuroticism and negative coping style indicated increasing tendency of depersonalization and more introvert and negative coping style indicated increasing of reduced personal accomplishment.Coping style could partly mediate the relationship between personality and job burnout.Conclusion Chinese clinicians suffer from burnout severely,coping styles mediate between the personality factors and the burnout level.