RELATIONSHIP OF ROLE OVERLOAD AND BURNOUT TO COPING PROCESS IN REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL STAFF NURSES NEWLY EMPLOYED IN A HOSPITAL SETTING (NURSES).
Contributors: New York University.
Published: 1989
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Psychology, Industrial.
Description: The purpose of this study was to determine if role overload and burnout were factors which affect the ways in which registered professional staff nurses cope with work stress. It was hypothesized that role overloaded nurses would utilize more emotion-focused and less problem-focused coping, that burnout would result in the use of less emotion-focused coping and more problem-focused coping, and that the interaction of role overload and burnout would result in an even greater use of problem-focused coping and a lesser use of emotion-focused coping.

Two hundred and fourteen registered professional staff nurses employed in their first job as a nurse in a hospital setting completed the Role Overload Subscale of the Occupational Roles Questionnaire; the Maslach Burnout Inventory; the Ways of Coping, Revised; and a demographic questionnaire. Multiple regression analysis described the relationship between role overload and coping, burnout and coping, and the interaction effects.

The findings of this study indicated a relationship between role overload and problem-focused coping. A relationship was also found between degree of burnout and problem-focused coping. An interaction effect was found between role overload and degree of burnout, resulting in an increased use of problem-focused coping. Role overload was found to be related to degree of burnout in ancillary analysis. The correlation coefficient between emotional exhaustion and personal accomplishment (r = $-$.82), variables in the Maslach Burnout Inventory, not reported heretofore, required dropping emotional exhaustion from the multiple regression analysis to avoid multicollinearity.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-03, Section: B, page: 1191.

Thesis (PH.D.)--NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 1989.

School code: 0146.