STUDY TO ASSESS THE RELATIONSHIP OF BURNOUT SYNDROME AND JOB SATISFACTION AMONG NURSES.
Contributors: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
Published: 1984
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Education, Health.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The first purpose of this study was to determine whether a relationship existed between nurses' job satisfaction, and burnout. Secondly, this study attempted to determine which if any of the components of job satisfaction had a greater influence on the degree of burnout.

Registered nurses employed by Memorial Medical Center, Springfield, Illinois constituted the sample (n = 186) for this study. Nurses were asked to complete a self-report questionnaire containing three sections: demographic data; the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI); and the Job Descriptive Index (JDI).

To test the first hypothesis the respondents' JDI total score and scores on each of the three MBI subscale scores were tested for existing correlation using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation. The study revealed significant negative correlation on the subscales of Personal Accomplishment and Emotional Exhaustion. Both tests, although significant had very low strength and were therefore deemed of little practical value.

Testing of the second hypothesis was accomplished by dividing the nurses into two groups; those who were burned-out (n = 20) and those who were not-burned-out (n = 166), using their MBI scores. A t-test was used to find significant differences in the means of the two groups on each of the JDI subscales. Significant differences in the means existed only on the JDI subscale of work.

It was concluded that, for these nurses, there is little correlation between the components of burnout and job satisfaction. Also, only the area of the work itself appears to influence the amount of suffered burnout.

This study did reveal a suprisingly negative attitude in these nurses. Every respondent failed to have a score high enough to reach the norm in the area of personal accomplishment. Also these nurses were well below the norm on four of five subscales of the JDI and barely achieved the norm on the remaining subscale of satisfaction with supervision.

The conclusions include that a minimal relationship exists between burnout and job satisfaction as measured in this study. Also, these nurses appear to have very negative feelings about their job, which suggests further study to evaluate attitudes, discover problem areas, and develop programs to reduce existing conflicts.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-03, Section: A, page: 0621.

Thesis (PH.D.)--SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AT CARBONDALE, 1984.

School code: 0209.