The Turkish Adaptation of the Burnout Measure-Short Version (BMS) and Couple Burnout Measure-Short Version (CBMS) and the Relationship between Career and Couple Burnout Based on Psychoanalytic-Existential Perspective

AbstractThe purpose of this research is to carry out the Turkish adaptation, validity, and reliability studies of Burnout Measure-Short Form [BMS] and Couple Burnout Measure-Short Form (CBMS) and also to analyze the correlation between the careers and couple burnout scores of the participants from the psychoanalytic-existential perspective. This research included married individuals who have been living in Mersin and working as a nurse, teacher and school administrators. In the research "Burnout Measure-Short Version (BMS)", "Couple Burnout Measure-Short Version (CBMS)", "Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)" and an "Individual Knowledge Form" which was prepared by the researcher were used. In data analysis, principal components factor analysis, the criterion related validity, test-retest reliability, item-total test correlations and Cronbach's Alpha coefficients were calculated. Moreover, the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to calculate the relationships among the variables and t-test and one-way ANOVA was used to investigate the difference between the BMS and the CBMS scores in terms of gender and occupation. As a result of analysis, while the BMS and the CBMS were seen to be used in a valid and reliable way in Turkey, significant differences in terms of gender and occupation variables were found out and significant relations were found between participants' career and couple burnout scores.Key WordsCareer Burnout, Couple Burnout, Occupation, Gender, Validity, Reliability.Researches concerning the phenomenon of burnout which has been studied as a common research subject since 1970s in the foreign and since the 1990s in the local literature have been observed to be conducted in a different progress. At the beginning, human services fields working with people face-to face were studied and in the subsequent years this continued with the studies of occupational groups working in almost all the fields (Maslach & Leiter, 1997). At the final stage, the direction of the research has been observed to reach a new and specific point with the studies on the out-of-profession population such as "spouses/married couples" (Capri, 2008; Pines, 1993, 1996; Pines & Nunes, 2003) and "students" (Capri, Gunduz, & Gokcakan, 2011; Hu & Schaufeli, 2009; Kutsal, 2009; Pines, Neal, Hammer, & Icekson, 2011; Schaufeli, Martinez, Marques-Pinto, Salanova, & Bakker, 2002; Schaufeli, Salanova, Gonzalez-Roma, & Bakker, 2002; Zhang, Gan, & Zhang, 2005). Models developed to explain the burnout [Maslach Model (Maslach, 1976; Maslach & Jackson, 1982) Psychoanalytic Model (Freudenberger, 1980), Cherniss Model (Cherniss, 1980), Edelwich Model (Edelwich & Brodsky, 1980), Pines' Psychoanalytic-Existential Model (Pines & Aronson, 1988; Pines, Aronson, & Kafry, 1981), Fischer Model (Fischer, 1983), Golembiewski and Munzenrider Model (Golembiewski & Munzenrider, 1984), Leiter Model (Leiter, 1991)] have significant contributions to this point arrived.Considering the literature, Mas lach' career burnout model stands out to be the one on which the highest number of research has been conducted. According to this model (Maslach & Jackson, 1986), burnout is defined as a syndrome emerging as emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, reduced personal accomplishment among the individuals working in the human services field. According to Pines' Psychoanalytic-Existential Model (Pines & Aronson, 1988) which is based on Frankl's (1976) ideas about the human being s search for meaning, burnout is defined as a symptom of physical, emotional and mental exhaustion resulting in the constant feeling of stress, hopelessness, despair and being trapped with the loss of enthusiasm, energy, idealism, perspective and purpose. Perhaps, the underlying reason why Pines' Psychoanalytic-Existential Model has become so distinguishing is because it has added a new and significant dimension to the literature by adapting the burnout studies conducted on professions so far into an out-of-profession field such as couple/marriage. …