1. Association of job burnout with subjective well-being and health status among employees from 29 provinces in China
Caijuan XU ; Yu XIAO ; Ning PAN ; Jun YE ; Qiongxi LIN ; Yu JIN
Chinese Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Diseases 2017;35(10):758-762
Objective:
To investigate the influence of job burnout on subjective well-being and health status among employees in China.
Methods:
The data from the 2014 China Labor-force Dynamic Survey were used to analyze the association of job burnout with subjective well-being and health status among 7289 employees aged 18-64 years from 29 provinces in China.Some items from the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey were used to investigate job burnout; subjective well-being assessment included life happiness and degree of satisfaction with living condition; the questions for self-evaluation of health status were used to analyze health status.
Results:
Of all employees,30.5% had low subjective well-being and 4.7% had poor health status based on self-evaluation. The logistic regression analysis showed that emotional exhaustion(two items), reduced sense of personal accomplishment,and cynicism were risk factors for low subjective well-being(