title: [Job burnout and contributing factors for nurses].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the degree of job burnout and contributing factors for nurses.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 495 nurses from three provincial hospitals were randomly selected. The MBI-GS, EPQ-RSC and OSI-R were administered to measure job burnout, personality traits and occupational stress, respectively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The medical and surgical nurses had significant greater scores of job burnout than others (P < 0.05). The poorer educational background was correlated with lower professional efficacy. The younger nurses had stronger feeling of job burnout. The scores of job burnout changed with different personality traits. The main contributing variables to exhaustion were overload, sense of responsibility, role insufficient and self-care (P < 0.05). The main contributing variables to cynicism were role insufficiency, role boundary, sense of responsibility and self-care (P < 0.05). The main contributing variables to professional inefficacy were role insufficiency, social support and rational/cognitive coping (P < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Job burnout for nurses can be prevented by reducing or keeping moderate professional duties and responsibility, making clearer job descriptions, promoting leisure activities, and enhancing self-care capabilities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Occupational Health, West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041 China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Zhi-ming
authors.initials: ZM
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Mian-zhen
authors.initials: MZ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ya-jia
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Lan
authors.forename: Si-ying
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016526:Workload