Correlation between Psychological Capital and Occupational ‎Burnout in Nurses ‎

Abstract

[1] A comprehensive dictionary of psychology and psychiatry: English-Persian [2] Stress and psychiatric disorder in healthcare professionals and hospital staff [3] Stress, anxiety, and cognitive interference: Reactions to tests [4] Psychology of productivity [5] Job burnout [6] Maslach burnout inventory manual [7] Psychology: Models of the healthy personality [8] Positive organizational behavior: Engaged employee in flourishing organizations [9] Positive psychological capital: Measurement and relationship with performance and satisfaction [10] Cultivate self-efficacy for personal and organization [11] Hope theory: Rainbows in the mind [12] Learned Optimism [13] Human resource management: Strategy and action links [14] Relationship between job stress and resiliency with occupational burnout among nurses [15] Relationship between psychological capital, personality characteristics with burnout of administrative staff of the education district 3 of Shiraz [16] The impact of psychological capital on job burnout of Chinese nurses: The mediator role of organizational commitment [17] The impact of psychological capital on mental health among Iranian nurses: Considering the mediating role of job burnout [18] Psychological capital: Developing the human competitive edge [19] The development and resulting performance impact of positive psychological capital [20] Caring as a resilient practice in mental health nursing Aims The environment surrounding human includes physical, social, and psychological factors, each of which plays an important role in health status of human. The studies have shown that several psychological factors may play role in occupational burnout among the nurses. The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between psychological capital and occupational burnout in nurses. Instruments & Methods The statistical population of the present descriptive correlational study comprised of employed nurses in hospitals affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, who were totally 4,000 participants selected based on the Cochran's formula for sample size as 351 respondents, using stratified random sampling method in 2015-2016. The research tools included Luthans et al.'s psychological capital questionnaire and Maslach burnout inventory. The data analysis was performed, using statistical SPSS 19 software by stepwise regression, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and ANOVA test. Findings There was an inverse significant correlation among psychological capital (r=-0.179; p<0.05) and resiliency (r=-0.318; p<0.05) with occupational burnout, while self-efficacy, hope, positive attitude-optimism were not significantly related to occupational burnout. Accordingly, at the first step, resiliency interprets 10.1% of variance of occupational burnout (p<0.01). Therefore, regression can be extended to statistical population. Beta coefficient reduced occupational burnout up to 0.318 units against 1 unit increase in resiliency (p=0.001). Conclusion There is an inverse correlation between psychological capital and occupational burnout in nurses. However, there is no correlation between self-efficacy, hope, positive attitude-optimism of psychological capital with occupational burnout.