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Influence Of Personal Functioning And Behaviour Type On Burnout Among Public Health Workers
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Personal functioning and Psychological burnout
The ability of health workers to adapt and make use of coping skills is
very beneficial to them , coping occurs in response to psychological
stress which is usually triggered in an effect to maintain mental health
and emotional well-being coping strategies are the behaviors, thoughts
and emotions that can be used to adjust the environment by health
workers. The inability of the health workers to employ the different
coping skills that will help them to cope and adapt to the changes and
the unwelcome situations that they encounter in their working
environment may bring about burnout, but if health workers make use of
different coping skills that will help them adapt to the changes they
faced in their working environment, such may hinder the occurrence of
burnout and may help them to function personally.
The
coping strategies in which the health workers should adapt include
self-control, sharing emotions with other co-workers when they face
stressful situations and also when they are depressed. Self-control
entails engaging in positive thinking, tolerance and forced acceptance,
using positive thinking to overcome negative thoughts when health
workers make use of this coping strategy, it may help them in reducing
tension and stress. Other coping strategies health workers may use to
reduce tension and stress include ignoring negative feelings, and
thoughts. workers may use these to reduce tension and stress, an also
ignoring negative feelings thought stopping and avoiding stressful
situations. If the health workers can cope in other to bring about a
positive personal functioning, it may be helpful because work stress
depression, anxiety and fear are the major predictors that can make
health workers to be psychological burnout. Research has shown that
burnout is accompanied with diverse types of problems which can affect
the health workers physical and psychological well-being as well as
their health conditions. The ability of the health workers to cope with
occupational stressors would hinder the occurrence of burnout but the
inability of the health workers to cope with occupational stressors may
trigger the occurrence of burnout.
Behavior type and Psychological Burnout
Unwelcome situations can make health workers not to be happy and
prolong encountering of this unpleasant and frustrating situations in
the work environment can trigger burnout which, affects the health
workers well-being, psychologically and psychically. The inability of
the health workers being faced with challenging situations in the work
environment to regulate their emotions positively can lead to burnout
thus behavior type goes a long way to determine whether burnout will
occur among health workers if the environment does not correspond with
their personality but when the health workers are able to use different
coping strategies to cope with stress and unwelcome situations despite
their behavior type, it can hinder the occurrence of burnout among
health workers.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study investigated influence of Personal functioning and Behavior type on burnout among public health workersâ€. Two hundred and thirty-one (231) health workers comprising of Hundred and one (101) males (44.5%) and Hundred and twenty-six (126) females (55.5%) were selected from hospitals in Uyo metropolis. Participants were selected using convenient sampling technique. Their age ranged between 18 and 62 years with a mean age of 38 years. Maslach Burnout Inventory -General survey (MBI-GS ... Continue reading---
