Personality traits among burnt out and non‐burnt out health‐care personnel at the same workplaces: A pilot study
ABSTRACT: Stress‐related illnesses, such as burnout, have increased over the last decade, but not everyone at the same workplace develops burnout, suggesting that individual factors may contribute to this phenomenon. The aim of this study was to describe patterns of personality traits among two grou...
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crwiley:10.1111/j.1447-0349.2009.00623.x 2024-06-02T08:12:12+00:00 Personality traits among burnt out and non‐burnt out health‐care personnel at the same workplaces: A pilot study Gustafsson, Gabriella Persson, Birgitta Eriksson, Sture Norberg, Astrid Strandberg, Gunilla 2009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1447-0349.2009.00623.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1447-0349.2009.00623.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1447-0349.2009.00623.x en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor International Journal of Mental Health Nursing volume 18, issue 5, page 336-348 ISSN 1445-8330 1447-0349 journal-article 2009 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1447-0349.2009.00623.x 2024-05-03T11:32:04Z ABSTRACT: Stress‐related illnesses, such as burnout, have increased over the last decade, but not everyone at the same workplace develops burnout, suggesting that individual factors may contribute to this phenomenon. The aim of this study was to describe patterns of personality traits among two groups of health‐care personnel from the same workplaces, one group on sick leave due to medically‐assessed burnout, and one group with no indication of burnout, respectively. Fourteen psychiatric‐ ( n = 7) and elderly ( n = 7)‐care units, located in one specific area in a municipality in northern Sweden, participated in this questionnaire‐based study. The participants ( n = 40), on sick leave due to medically‐assessed burnout ( n = 20), and those with no indication of burnout ( n = 20), respectively, completed Cattell's 16 Personality Factors Questionnaire between February and December 2004. Conventional statistical methods and partial least square regression were used to analyze data. The results showed that the burnout group had lower scores regarding emotional stability and higher scores regarding anxiety than the non‐burnout group, but the results also showed a wide variation of personality traits within groups. The most important indicators for belonging to the burnout group were ‘openness to changes’ and ‘anxiety’, and for belonging to the non‐burnout group, ‘emotional stability’, ‘liveliness’, ‘privateness’ (i.e. forthright or discreet), and ‘tension’. The result indicates complex interactions between personality traits and the context in which the individual lives. It seems to be important to increase our awareness of when personality traits may constitute opportunities versus risks in dealing with one's existing circumstances. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden Wiley Online Library International Journal of Mental Health Nursing 18 5 336 348 |
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ABSTRACT: Stress‐related illnesses, such as burnout, have increased over the last decade, but not everyone at the same workplace develops burnout, suggesting that individual factors may contribute to this phenomenon. The aim of this study was to describe patterns of personality traits among two groups of health‐care personnel from the same workplaces, one group on sick leave due to medically‐assessed burnout, and one group with no indication of burnout, respectively. Fourteen psychiatric‐ ( n = 7) and elderly ( n = 7)‐care units, located in one specific area in a municipality in northern Sweden, participated in this questionnaire‐based study. The participants ( n = 40), on sick leave due to medically‐assessed burnout ( n = 20), and those with no indication of burnout ( n = 20), respectively, completed Cattell's 16 Personality Factors Questionnaire between February and December 2004. Conventional statistical methods and partial least square regression were used to analyze data. The results showed that the burnout group had lower scores regarding emotional stability and higher scores regarding anxiety than the non‐burnout group, but the results also showed a wide variation of personality traits within groups. The most important indicators for belonging to the burnout group were ‘openness to changes’ and ‘anxiety’, and for belonging to the non‐burnout group, ‘emotional stability’, ‘liveliness’, ‘privateness’ (i.e. forthright or discreet), and ‘tension’. The result indicates complex interactions between personality traits and the context in which the individual lives. It seems to be important to increase our awareness of when personality traits may constitute opportunities versus risks in dealing with one's existing circumstances. |
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Gustafsson, Gabriella Persson, Birgitta Eriksson, Sture Norberg, Astrid Strandberg, Gunilla Personality traits among burnt out and non‐burnt out health‐care personnel at the same workplaces: A pilot study |
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Personality traits among burnt out and non‐burnt out health‐care personnel at the same workplaces: A pilot study |
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Personality traits among burnt out and non‐burnt out health‐care personnel at the same workplaces: A pilot study |
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Personality traits among burnt out and non‐burnt out health‐care personnel at the same workplaces: A pilot study |
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Personality traits among burnt out and non‐burnt out health‐care personnel at the same workplaces: A pilot study |
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Personality traits among burnt out and non‐burnt out health‐care personnel at the same workplaces: A pilot study |
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personality traits among burnt out and non‐burnt out health‐care personnel at the same workplaces: a pilot study |
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