JOB BURNOUT AMONG CRITICAL CARE NURSES (NURSES).
Contributors: University of Florida.
Published: 1990
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Psychology, Industrial.
Description: This study was designed to test a path-analytical model of the theoretical conceptualization of burnout for critical care nurses. Three hundred critical care nurses in Florida were administered a demographic questionnaire and Work Survey Instrument, Daily Hassles Instrument, Psychological Hardiness test, Job Diagnostic Inventory, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Personal, organizational, situational stress, job stress, job satisfaction, and burnout variables were examined.

Family demands, health difficulties and a low psychological hardiness and a high degree of skill variety and a dissatisfaction with job security are linked to situational stress, contributing 70 percent of explained variance. This situational stress is causally linked to perceived job stress along with the direct effects of family demands, health difficulties, dissatisfaction with nursing supervision, pay, and job security. These variables account for 71 percent of explained variance in job stress. Job stress directly affects job satisfaction. In addition, job dissatisfaction is also directly affected by high job expectations, meaninglessness of work, low knowledge of work results, health, high task identity, a high frequency of dealing with others on the job, dissatisfaction with opportunities for advancement, pay, supervision, and satisfaction with job security. Together these account for 62 percent of the variance in general job dissatisfaction. This situation will then lead to burnout-emotional exhaustion. Burnout-emotional exhaustion is directly affected by job dissatisfaction, as well as low commitment to the career, health difficulties, low psychological hardiness, high workload, a high degree of dealing with others on the job, and dissatisfaction with job security; however, only 38 percent of the variance in burnout-emotional exhaustion was explained by these variables.

The study results provide a better understanding of the factors relevant to the development of burnout. This research indicates that there is a causal progression of situational stress, job stress, job dissatisfaction resulting in burnout.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-03, Section: B, page: 1359.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, 1990.

School code: 0070.