Prevalence and Predictors of Burnout Among Adult Day Care Providers
| Autor: | Kathleen H. Wilber, Clare V. Specht |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
| Předmět: |
Coping (psychology)
Family caregivers business.industry health care facilities manpower and services education 05 social sciences Multilevel model 050109 social psychology Day care Burnout Work environment 050106 general psychology & cognitive sciences health services administration Depersonalization medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Geriatrics and Gerontology medicine.symptom Emotional exhaustion business Gerontology psychological phenomena and processes Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Gerontology. 13:282-298 |
| ISSN: | 1552-4523 0733-4648 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/073346489401300305 |
| Popis: | Over the past decade, an extensive research literature has focused on stress, burden, and coping among family caregivers to improve the quality of care to dependent elders. Although a better understanding of the prevalence and predictors of burnout among formal service providers could be expected to produce similar benefits, little is known about stress and burnout among paid caregivers. The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which paid care providers in adult day care (ADC) experience burnout and to examine the relationship between employees' perceptions of their work environment and burnout. Participants (N = 102) were staff from a random sample of ADC centers in California. Using the Maslach Burnout Inventory, burnout was found to be low for the depersonalization and personal achievement aspects and moderate for emotional exhaustion. Hierarchical regression indicated that after controlling for demographic differences and daily hassles, work environment measures were significant correlates of each of the three aspects of burnout. Findings are discussed in terms of their implications for organizational-level work design issues and macrolevel policy decisions. |
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