title: Relationship between occupational stress and job burnout among rural-to-urban migrant workers in Dongguan, China: a cross-sectional study.
abstract: In China, there have been an increasing number of migrant workers from rural to urban areas, and migrant workers have the highest incidence of occupational diseases. However, few studies have examined the impact of occupational stress on job burnout in these migrant workers. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between occupational stress and job burnout among migrant workers.
  
  
  
  This study used a cross-sectional survey.
  
  
  
  This investigation was conducted in Dongguan city, Guangdong Province, China.
  
  
  
  3806 migrant workers, aged 18-60 years, were randomly selected using multistage sampling procedures.
  
  
  
  Multistage sampling procedures were used to examine demographic characteristics, behaviour customs and job-related data. Hierarchical linear regression and logistic regression models were constructed to explore the relationship between occupational stress and burnout.
  
  
  
  Demographics, behaviour customs and job-related characteristics significantly affected on burnout. After adjusting for the control variable, a high level of emotional exhaustion was associated with high role overload, high role insufficiency, high role boundary, high physical environment, high psychological strain, high physical strain, low role ambiguity, low responsibility and low vocational strain. A high level of depersonalisation was associated with high role overload, high role ambiguity, high role boundary, high interpersonal strain, high recreation, low physical environment and low social support. A low level of personal accomplishment was associated with high role boundary, high role insufficiency, low responsibility, low social support, low physical environment, low self-care and low interpersonal strain. Compared to the personal resources, the job strain and personal strain were more likely to explain the burnout of rural-to-urban migrant workers in our study.
  
  
  
  The migrant workers have increased job burnouts in relation to occupational stress. Relieving occupational stress and maintaining an appropriate quantity and quality of work could be important measures for preventing job burnout among these workers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dongguan Key Laboratory of Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dongguan Key Laboratory of Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dongguan Key Laboratory of Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Xiujuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dongguan Key Laboratory of Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yun
authors.affiliation: Post Graduate Academic Institute of Medicine, and Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK.
authors.forename: Ruoling
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dongguan Key Laboratory of Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yuting
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dongguan Key Laboratory of Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Longmei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dongguan Key Laboratory of Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Jiaxian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dongguan Key Laboratory of Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Linhua
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dongguan Key Laboratory of Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Hairong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dongguan Key Laboratory of Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yali
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhuang
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dongguan Key Laboratory of Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Liecheng
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dongguan Key Laboratory of Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Ling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Baoan Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Jinping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dongguan Key Laboratory of Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Huanwen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D000073397:Occupational Stress / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D012423:Rural Health; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000523:psychology*; D014504:Urban Health; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Rural-to-urban Migrant Workers; job burnout; occupational stress