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- Title
The Relationship of Work Environment and Client Contact to Burnout in Mental Health Professionals.
- Authors
Savicki, Victor; Cooley, Eric
- Abstract
The authors explored the relationship of the work environment (assessed by the Work Environment Scale) and client contact to scores of 94 mental health professionals on the Emotional Exhaustion, Personal Accomplishment, and Depersonalization subscales of the Maslach Burnout Inventory. <BR> As the number of studies of burnout and its potential contributors increases, the need to establish the relative importance of these contributing factors becomes more apparent. Our first goal in this study was to examine the relationship between burnout and environmental factors within a design that permits a comparison of the relative importance of several environmental factors. A second goal was to examine the role of moderator variables in the burnout-environment correlations. Moderator variables are those that influence the relationship between two other variables. For example, if there were a significant correlation between years of employment and salary for male employees but not for female employees, then sex would be a moderator variable for the relationship between years of employment and salary.
- Subjects
WORK environment; MENTAL health; PSYCHOLOGICAL burnout; MODERATOR variables; EMPLOYEES; GENDER
- Publication
Journal of Counseling & Development, 1987, Vol 65, Issue 5, p249
- ISSN
0748-9633
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/j.1556-6676.1987.tb01276.x