The influence of risk and protective factors on burnout experienced by those who work with maltreated children

The aim of the study was to explore the degree (and type) of burnout and trauma symptoms, personal histories and coping strategies retrospectively reported by those who work with maltreated children and their families. A self‐selected sample of workers (N = 44) completed a self‐report questionnaire assessing childhood maltreatment, family background characteristics, current adjustment, coping strategies and burnout. Workers reported high levels of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, and a low to moderate sense of personal accomplishment. Family background characteristics predicted the occurrence of maltreatment and current adjustment, and a personal history of maltreatment predicted current trauma symptoms, but not burnout. Workers most frequently used problem‐focused coping strategies and sought social support; however, coping strategies were not associated with the level of either trauma symptoms or burnout. Despite employing positive coping strategies, their efficacy may be affected by other interpersonal, intra‐individual and job resource issues. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

江苏省基层医务人员工作压力研究

对905名基层医务人员进行问卷调查,了解基层医务人员工作压力情况及其影响因素,为建立适合基层卫生机构的良性人才发展机制提供依据。基层医务人员整体工作压力得分为56.54分;单因素方差分析显示,不同性别、年龄、婚姻状况、学历、职称、机构类型、工作量、工作年数、受患者尊重程度和社会地位的医务人员工作压力得分差异具有统计学意义;多元线性回归分析结果显示,社会地位、工作量、工作年数、受患者尊重程度、最高学历和性别对基层医务人员工作压力的影响具有统计学意义。需要着重关注乡镇卫生院医生的工作压力情况,重点应放在提升基层医务人员社会地位、及时关注中坚力量等方面,从而减轻其工作压力,提高工作积极性。     

摭谈高校学报编辑的职业倦怠现象

从心理、行为、生理三个方面阐述了高校学报编辑的职业倦怠表现,分析了其危害性。从社会认可度较低导致职业荣誉感不足、学校关注度不够导致职业归属感不强、工作压力较大导致职业疲倦感增加、受到尊重较少导致职业认同感降低四个方面分析了编辑职业倦怠的产生原因,并从主观和客观两个方面提出了缓解编辑职业倦怠的有效措施:编辑转变观念,提高自我调适的能力;学校调整思路,倡导人性化的管理。     

Vocational education,self‐employment and burnout among Australian workers

We examine the relationship between vocational education and occupational burnout among workers in different forms of employment. Although the self‐employed enjoy higher levels of job autonomy and work‐related satisfaction, we do not know whether they experience lower rates of occupational burnout, and whether vocational education plays a role in this relationship. This latter consideration is important, given that vocational qualifications often lead to self‐employment and prior research demonstrated that formal training may reduce burnout. However, formal education was previously measured in years of schooling, without considering the distinction between academically‐oriented and vocational courses. Therefore, using data from a 2001 national survey of working Australians, we first establish that the self‐employed are significantly less likely to experience burnout. We then demonstrate that some resilience to burnout can be attributed to the attainment of skilled vocational training, net of employment characteristics which are also very important.     

论高校教师的职业倦怠

不同个体、不同类型的职业倦怠其产生原因各不相同,归结起来,高校教师产生职业倦怠的主要原因有四个:学术权利和行政权利的不均衡;高校教师职称评聘、业绩考核制度存在弊端;高校教师录用和选聘过程缺乏有力的人才测评以及社会对高校教师报赏的失衡。因此,缓解和克服高校教师的职业倦怠也要从这几个方面考虑。     

Self-Stigma of seeking help and job burnout in mental health care providers: the comparative study of Lithuanian and the USA samples

This study aimed to explore the correlation between job burnout and self-stigma of seeking help among nonmedical mental health care providers (psychologists, social workers, and counselors) in two countries – Lithuania and the US. The study included 234 professionals (111 social workers and 123 psychologists) from Lithuania and 93 professionals (33 counselors, 23 social workers, and 37 psychologists) from the US on a voluntary basis (93% females, mean age – 39.81?years). They completed a self-reported questionnaire with the Self-Stigma of Seeking Help Scale (SSOSH) and the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS). The results revealed a statistically significant positive correlation between self-stigmatization and burnout in the Lithuanian sample, but only weak positive correlation between depersonalization and self-stigma of seeking help in the US sample. The relationship between the self-stigma of seeking help and burnout was stronger in the Lithuanian sample of professionals when compared to their colleagues in the US.     

Racial battle fatigue and activist burnout in racial justice activists of color at predominately White colleges and universities

Activist burnout scholarship has inadequately considered challenges marginalized-identity activists, such as racial justice activists of color, experience in the course of their activism – challenges from which privileged identity activists, such as white racial justice activists, are protected. This article attempts to address this gap through a phenomenological study examining activist burnout in racial justice activists of color whose primary sites of activism are predominantly white colleges and universities in the United States at which they work. In order to stretch activist burnout theory to differentiate unique marginalized-identity activists’ burnout causes from general causes that do not consider specific activist identities, the lens of racial battle fatigue is employed. Findings show that, although participants shared many causes of burnout that are consistent with general non-identity-specific causes described in existing literature, racial battle fatigue hastened their burnout while their activist commitments elevated their battle fatigue.     

工科院校思想政治课教师职业倦怠探析

高校思想政治理论课是对大学生进行系统思想政治教育的主要渠道和主阵地。思政教师教育作用的发挥至为关键。但思政教师却弥漫着职业倦怠的气息。对教师自身、想政治理论课教学效果以及整个社会都产生负面的影响。现以工科院校思政教师为主体分析其职业倦怠的危害、成因,探讨预防及缓解对策。     

新生代员工情绪劳动策略对工作生活质量的影响--工作倦怠的中介作用

从工作倦怠的视角探索中国情境下新生代员工的工作生活质量问题对于完善新生代员工的管理具有重要意义。基于此,运用实证研究方法,以工作倦怠作为工作生活质量前因变量和情绪劳动策略的结果变量,探讨新生代员工情绪劳动策略、工作倦怠和工作生活质量三者间的相互作用机理,并用优势分析检验了工作倦怠3个维度对工作生活质量的相对贡献。研究结果表明：（1）新生代员工表层扮演对工作生活质量具有显著负向影响,而深层扮演对工作生活质量具有正向影响;（2）工作倦怠各维度在情绪劳动策略与工作生活质量关系间均具有部分中介效应;（3）职业效能感对新生代员工工作生活质量的贡献最大,为50．26％,其次是玩世不恭达到30．1％,最后是情绪衰竭为19．6％。     

员工的工作倦怠及其预防和干预

工作倦怠是员工由于长期从事特定工作而感到身心俱疲,以致于面对工作时感到焦虑、烦恼,想逃避工作、不愿工作的心理状态。工作倦怠降低员工的工作积极性,对组织的生产效率的提高不利。文章对员工的工作倦怠的本质、表现和原因进行了剖析,提出了员工工作倦怠的预防的方法和干预的措施。