ANALYSIS OF RELATIONSHIPS OF EMOTIONAL BURN OUT FEATURES AND INDICATORS OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AMONG MEDICAL WORKERS
Authors: Pylypenko N. , Sydorenko O. 
Published: November 2021

Purpose - the aim of this article is to present the results of a statistical analysis of the relationship between the features of emotional burnout and indicators of emotional intelligence among medical workers.
Material and methods - 4 groups of respondents (110 medical workers) took part in the study: surgical doctors, therapeutic doctors, surgical nurses, therapeutic nurses. Evaluation of the features of emotional burnout and emotional intelligence was carried out using diagnostic methods of emotional burnout (V.Boyko), the questionnaire of emotional burnout by K. Maslach and S. Jackson (adaptation by N. Vodopyanova) and the method of emotional intelligence (N. Hall).
The study consisted of two stages. The purpose of the first stage was to determine the level and characteristics of the manifestation of emotional burnout of medical workers according to the following symptoms: (emotional exhaustion; depersonalization; reduction of personal achievements; "stress" (experiencing traumatic circumstances, dissatisfaction with oneself, caged, anxiety and depression); "resistance" (inadequate selective emotional response, emotional and moral disorientation, expansion of the sphere of saving emotions, reduction of professional duties); "exhaustion" (emotional deficit, emotional detachment, psychosomatic and psychovegetative disorders). The level of manifestation of emotional intelligence of medical workers was also assessed according to the following indicators: emotional awareness, emotion management, self-motivation, empathy, recognition of other people's emotions The second stage of the study was aimed at determining the characteristics of the relationship of individual indicators of emotional benefit screaming with specific indicators of the emotional intelligence of health care workers. Mathematical processing of the research results was carried out using Spearman's correlation coefficient by means of the SPSS 17 computer program.
Results and discussion. The results of our research have shown that: 1) the overwhelming majority of the test subjects have high and medium levels of reduction of personal achievements, and such a phase of emotional burnout as resistance” (inadequate selective emotional response, emotional and moral disorientation, expansion of the sphere of economy of emotions, reduction of professional duties); 2) half of respondents have high and medium levels of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization; 3) a quarter of the respondents formed such a phase of emotional burnout as “exhaustion” (emotional deficit, emotional and personal detachment, psychosomatic and psychovegetative disorders). The following levels of development of emotional intelligence were revealed in different groups of medical workers: a) high and medium - among doctors of a surgical profile and doctors of a therapeutic profile; medium - for surgical nurses; low - for therapeutic nurses.
Conclusion. Medical workers with high and medium levels of emotional intelligence have a low level of manifestation of symptoms of emotional burnout (dissatisfaction with oneself; feelings of being caged; anxiety and depression; reduction of professional duties; emotional deficit; personal detachment; psychosomatic and psychovegetative disorders), as well as a low level of development phases of tension, resistance, exhaustion, depersonalization and reduction of personal achievements.