[Relationship of personality with job burnout and psychological stress risk in clinicians].
OBJECTIVE
To analyze the job burnout and mental health status of clinicians and the relationship of personality with job burnout and psychological stress, and to investigate the direct or indirect effects of personality on psychological stress.


METHODS
Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS), Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised Short Scale (EPQ-RSC), and Kessler 10 Scale were administered to 775 clinicians.


RESULTS
Of all clinicians, 29.5% had mild burnout, with a score of 22.7 ± 8.18 for psychological stress risk. The effect of personality on emotional exhaustion and cynicism was greater than that on personal accomplishment. Clinicians with a personality of introversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism suffered a higher risk of psychological stress. Personality had both direct and indirect effects on psychological stress. Neuroticism had the strongest effect on psychological stress, with an effect size of 0.55.


CONCLUSIONS
Clinicians have a high level of both job burnout and mental psychological stress risk. Personality is significantly correlated with job burnout and psychological stress risk. Measures depending on personality should be taken for effective intervention.
West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
Lei
L
Huang
Dinglun
D
Zhou
Yongcheng
Y
Yao
E-mail: lanyajia@sina.com.
Yajia
Y
Lan
D001008:Anxiety Disorders; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D005221:Fatigue; D006801:Humans; D000075384:Neuroticism; D010551:Personality; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D012306:Risk; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires