Moderating effects of resilience on areas of worklife and burnout among nurses
LE3 .A278 2014
2014
Leiter, Michael
Acadia University
Bachelor of Science
Honours
Psychology
Employees within the healthcare industry are constantly exposed to occupational stressors that may provoke employees into experiencing the burnout syndrome. Research addressing the buffering effects of specific human qualities, such as resilience, to alleviate the impact of stressors on experienced burnout is relatively scant. The present study examined relationships among six areas of worklife, resilience, and both the emotional exhaustion and cynicism components of burnout. A survey of health care workers (N=1873) was conducted by the Centre for Organizational Research and Development (COR&D) at Acadia University. Moderation analyses and linear regressions analyzed the predictive power of resilience as a moderating variable. Results indicated that resilience successfully buffered the relationship of workload and reward with emotional exhaustion, as well as the relationships of control, reward, and values with cynicism. The present findings offer suggestions for future research on resilience, as well as implications for reducing burnout among healthcare employees and employers.
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