Stress and burnout as predictors of job satisfaction amongst lawyers

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Objectives: To determine the impact of burnout and psychosocial stressors on the jobsatisfaction among male and female lawyers from different courts of Himachal Pradesh (India). Methodology: Three subscales of burnout and psychosocial stressors were used as predictors (independent variables) of job-satisfaction (dependent variables) among 150 equal numbers of male and female lawyers. The statistical treatments included Pearson's product moment co-efficient of correlation along with descriptive data (means, standard deviation and t-test (for gender difference). Regression analysis was also computed to find out the best set of predictors of job satisfaction. Results: The factors causing job dissatisfaction were (1) emotional exhaustion (2) depersonalization (3) reduced personal accomplishment (4) stress (5) strained interpersonal relationship (6) over-expectation (7) poor economic position (8) jealousy (9) poor social position (10) competition and (11) conflict between values and practice for male and female lawyers. Conclusion: The stepwise regression analysis indicated that emotional exhaustion, stress due to clients, work underload and economic position have turned out to be the significant predictors of job-satisfaction showing 45% variance for males and 55% variance for females. The t-test analysis revealed higher job-satisfaction for male lawyers as compared to their female counterparts. Whereas female lawyers experienced significantly greater psychosocial stressors and burnout as compared to males.

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Sharma, A., Verma, S., Verma, C., & Malhotra, D. (2010). Stress and burnout as predictors of job satisfaction amongst lawyers. European Journal of Social Sciences, 14(3), 348–359.

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