HARDINESS AS A PREDICTOR OF BURNOUT IN NURSING.
Contributors: West Virginia University.
Published: 1987
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Education, Guidance and Counseling.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of this study was to assess hardiness as a variable of individual difference which may affect burnout. The specific objective was to compare hardiness with selected demographic and perceptual variables for its ability to describe and predict burnout. A random sample of 1,049 nurses was selected from Kentucky's population of 13,650 nurses who shared the following demographic characteristics; residence in and nursing registration in Kentucky; full-time employment in 1986; female; and Caucasian. Participants numbered 529, 52.34 percent of the sample. Data were gathered through a 93-item paper and pencil questionnaire measuring demographic data and the perceptual data of career satisfaction, perception of support at work and at home, coping approaches of choice, and hardiness. Data analyses followed a model-building process, utilizing computer programs for Pearson product-moment correlation, analysis of variance, stepwise regression analysis, and analysis of covariance. The results of this research indicate that hardiness does not appear to be a strong enough descriptor or predictor of burnout to be relied upon for either purpose. Hardiness is a variable, however, with a highly significant relationship to burnout. In addition, hardiness shows strength in the significance of its relationship to the variables representing satisfaction with career choice, perception of support at work and at home, and coping approach, all of which demonstrate highly significant relationships to burnout. Implications of the research findings for future exploration and for application to counseling practice are presented.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-04, Section: A, page: 0736.

Thesis (ED.D.)--WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY, 1987.

School code: 0256.