The relationships among psychological stress, emotion regulation type and job burnout in military stationed in Xinjiang

Abstract

Objective To explore the relationship among psychological stress, emotion regulation type and job burnout of military stationed in Xinjiang, and provide theoretical basis for intervening job burnout in military stationed in Xinjiang. Methods 757 soldiers were chosen by random cluster sampling method and measured with the job burnout scale for military personnel, the psychological stress self-evaluation test and the questionnaire of the soldier’s emotion regulation type. Results ①The scores of somatization, self-evaluation, passive work slowdown and job burnout of the only-child soldiers(respectively(6.34±4.86), (7.66±4.16), (5.00±3.51), (28.60±15.82)) were significantly higher than those of the non-only-child soldiers(respectively(5.34±4.51), (6.89±4.28), (4.25±3.22), (25.73±15.04) (t=2.804, 2.384, 2.950, 2.446; P<0.05 or P<0.01). For the score of the three factors (sense of achievement, somatization, and passive work slowdown), as well as the total score of job burnout, soldiers who had injury history were significantly higher than those who had not (t=3.471, 3.676, 4.222, 3.469; P<0.01). The total score and five factors scores of job burnout among soldiers who had high expectation were significantly lower than those soldier who had normal or less expectation (P<0.05 or P<0.01). ② Psychological stress, cognition attention, self comfort, training expectation and emotional appeal had significant predictive effect on job burnout (t=14.518, 8.241, -4.332, 2.990, -2.695; P< 0.01). ③Cognition attention played a mediating role between psychological stress and job burnout, and the rate of mediating effect was 18.8%. Self comfort played a mediating role between psychological stress and job burnout, and the rate of mediating effect was 4.4%. Conclusion Only-child or not, injury history and training expectation have important influence on job burnout.Cognition attention and self comfort play mediating role between psychological stress and job burnout. Key words: Military stationed in Xinjiang; Job burnout; Psychological stress; Emotion regulation type; Mediating effect