title: Burnout and collegial support in state psychiatric hospital staff.
abstract: To determine the correlates of burnout, 47 employees of a state psychiatric hospital completed measures of burnout, collegial support, prolonged anxiety, physical health, and job attitude. Results showed that burnout was associated positively with anxiety, frequency of illness, and contrary job attitudes, and correlated negatively with level of satisfaction with the collegial support network. Partial correlations showed that satisfaction with support systems diminished the effects of burnout on frequency of illness and job attitudes. Tests for divergent validity showed that these findings were specific to burnout and not other measures of job satisfaction or fulfillment. The results suggest that facilitating staff satisfaction with colleagues may reduce burnout and some of its deleterious effects.
authors.affiliation: University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, IL, USA.
authors.forename: P W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Corrigan
authors.forename: E P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Holmes
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Luchins
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D012307:Risk Factors; D012944:Social Support; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology