PERCEIVED JOB CONTROL, BURNOUT, AND DEPRESSION IN HOSPITAL NURSES: LONGITUDINAL AND CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES.
Contributors: State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Published: 1993
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Psychology, Social.; Psychology, Clinical.; Psychology, Industrial.
Description: Perceived control, burnout, and depression were assessed in a two-year longitudinal sample of 100 hospital nurses, and in a cross-sectional sample of 363 nurses. The major findings replicate those found by Glass, McKnight, and Valdimarsdottir (1993): (1) depression and burnout show considerable overlap (about 30%), (2) the occurrence of burnout realism (i.e., veridical perceptions of control in burned-out subjects and illusions of control in non-burned-out subjects, regardless of depression), and (3) documentation of a sequential model leading from perceived lack of job control to burnout to depression, rather than from depression to burnout. Additional analyses suggest that (1) environmental factors (i.e., excessive demands, little challenge, and severity of patients' illnesses) underlie burnout realism, and (2) emotional exhaustion is a central component of burnout and predicts indices of job turnover. The results were discussed in terms of cognitive-emotive approaches to sources of burnout.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-12, Section: B, page: 6499.

Thesis (PH.D.)--STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK, 1993.

School code: 0771.