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Influence Of Personal Functioning And Behaviour Type On Burnout Among Public Health Workers
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Thornton & Ryckman (2011), maintained
that the ability of health workers to cope with day to day functioning
in the worker place irrespective of their behavior type will hinder the
occurrence of burnout in response to chronic emotion strain in daily
interactions with clients. Human providers may feel emotionally over
stretched and drained by the interactions with other people. A way of
coping with this is emotionally distancing oneself from them. Decrease
involvement and also by reducing empathy. This detached attitude or
depersonalization may vary from nurses concerning their patients as
impersonal objects. As a result, human service professionals are unable
to perform adequately which in turn may result in a decline in the
feelings of professional efficacy.
Since health workers with
type A behavior are more competitive, aggressive, they always want to
achieve a lot in a short period of time, and when they are not able to
achieve what they thought of achieving in a short period of time they
will be sad and long encountering of this would lead to burnout compared
to those with type B behavior, but if the health workers despite their
type of behavior employed the different coping skills, it would go a
long way to hindering the occurrence of burnout.
1.2 Statement of Problem
The negative impact of psychological burnout on individuals has
remained prevalent throughout history. Increasing demands of our time
make job burnout a major factor that most employees have to contend
with, the inability of the health workers, to cope, with stress and
unwelcome situation in their working environment and their inability to
function personally have become a major factor that triggers burnout, in
our everyday life one requires motivation to carryout various degree of
tasks. One of the most important factors that lead one to his or her
goals is motivation drive. Thus to be motivated is a constant need when
health workers are motivated in terms of paying them salary to match
their desire and also lowering work overload like health workers carring
out a job which is supposed to be carried out by two or five people,
when all these is compromised for it would lower the experience of
burnout, for every individual there is a driving force.
In
fact, it’s not just a single factor, but a combination of factors that
lead people to achieve and alien. Health workers working in health
sector are properly motivated in terms of rewards such as paying them
salary that match their desire, and also lower the rate of encountering
workload because when an individual with type A behavior pattern do not
accomplish what the desire to achieve in a speculated time they desire
they would be depressed, sad, angry and long experience of these
unpleasant and unwelcoming situations would leads to the experience of
burnout and it can even make them develop hypertension and coronary
heart disease.
Research Questions
To what extent will personal functioning determine burnout among public health workers?
To what extent will type A and B behavior determine burnout among public health workers?
To what extent will personal functioning and behavior type lead to burnout among public 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---
