Abstract
Temperamental traits are indicated as some predictors of occupational burnout. At the same time, researchers emphasise that the importance of temperamental features for occurrences of burnout syndrome in medical staff is dependent on numerous intermediary variables, including ways of handling problematic situations. The overarching aim of presented studies was to examine whether styles of coping with stressful situations mediate relationships between temperamental traits and particular components of occupational burnout in psychiatric nurses. The study examined 60 women working in the psychiatric health care sector. Three psychological methods were employed in this research project: (1) Strelau Temperament Inventory by Strelau and Zawadzki (STI); (2) Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations by Endler and Parker (CISS); (3) Maslach Burnout Inventory - Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS). Conducted analyses allowed to confirm the mediating role of task style and emotional style in relationship between temperamental traits (briskness, perseveration, emotional reactivity, sensory sensitivity, activity) and occupational burnout. In the case of avoidance style there are no grounds to consider it as a mediator in the area of analysed dependencies. Providing psychiatric nurses with help: (1) should focus more on strengthening task style, rather than on rising awareness regarding the harmfulness of avoidance tendencies in the area of coping; (2) what seems important is developing the ability to experience negative emotions revealed in contacts with patients in a creative way.
Highlights
Burnout is one of the pivotal problems concerning work in professions characterized by constant contact with patients and being emotionally involved in patients’ problems [1, 2]
Providing psychiatric nurses with help: (1) should focus more on strengthening task style, rather than on rising awareness regarding the harmfulness of avoidance tendencies in the area of coping; (2) what seems important is developing the ability to experience negative emotions revealed in contacts with patients in a creative way
The completed research project allows for several practical conclusions to be made
Summary
Burnout is one of the pivotal problems concerning work in professions characterized by constant contact with patients and being emotionally involved in patients’ problems [1, 2]. Scientific literature concerning the subject of burnout emphasizes that in the discussed occupational group, nurses working in the psychiatric healthcare sector are susceptible to stress and burnout [6,7,8,9]. It results largely from the specificity of their work. Issues regarding work organization of psychiatric nurses play an important role (professional status, shift work system, sedentary nature of work, unfavorable locum conditions, little social support) [12] Due to such circumstances, the work of psychiatric nurses involves high risk of stress which leads to manifestation of occupational burnout syndrome [13]
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