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      Affective temperament, job stress and professional burnout in nurses and civil servants

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          Abstract

          Introduction

          The risk of professional burnout is constituted by job-related as well as individual factors. The latter involve affective temperament, which influences the perception of job-related stress. The aim of the present study was to assess the affective temperament, the level of job stress and professional burnout, as well as the relationships between these variables, in public servants and nurses.

          Material and methods

          100 civil servants and 100 nurses were enrolled in the study. Affective temperament and burnout were assessed by means of TEMPS-A and MBI questionnaires, respectively. To measure the level of job-related stress, we have designed a 6-item self-reported questionnaire, which considered stressors common for both professions.

          Results

          Compared to the civil servants, nurses showed higher rate of anxious temperament and experienced greater intensity of job-related stress. The groups did not differ in the intensity of burnout symptoms. The rates of cyclothymic and anxious temperaments correlated with the intensity of stress, and burnout symptoms in the group of nurses. Within the civil servants group, the level of stress correlated with intensity of burnout, however no correlations with affective temperament were observed. The regression analysis performed in both groups revealed the significant effect of stress and cyclothymic temperament on burnout, while the effect of anxious temperament was not significant.

          Conclusions

          Cyclothymic and anxious temperaments are related to the level of experienced job stress and the risk of burnout. In professions like nursing, where employees show elevated rates of these temperaments, burnout prevention and stress management education is of particular importance.

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                Contributors
                Role: Editor
                Journal
                PLoS One
                PLoS ONE
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                plosone
                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                6 June 2017
                2017
                : 12
                : 6
                : e0176698
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Faculty of Health Sciences, Chair of Clinical Neuropsychology, Bydgoszcz, Poland
                [2 ]University of Warmia and Mazury. Department of Foreign Language Studies, Olsztyn, Poland
                [3 ]Antoni Jurasz University Hospital No. 1, Bydgoszcz, Poland
                [4 ]WSB University in Toruń, Management Department, Toruń, Poland
                Technion Israel Institute of Technology, ISRAEL
                Author notes

                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

                • Conceptualization: M. Jaracz AB.

                • Data curation: IR ABB.

                • Formal analysis: M. Jaracz AB.

                • Investigation: IR ABB.

                • Methodology: M. Jaracz AB.

                • Project administration: M. Jaracz AB.

                • Resources: IR ABB.

                • Supervision: M. Jaracz AB.

                • Visualization: M. Jaskulski JN.

                • Writing – original draft: M. Jaracz.

                • Writing – review & editing: M. Jaracz AB.

                Article
                PONE-D-16-39473
                10.1371/journal.pone.0176698
                5460788
                28586391
                0878b683-7c92-42bf-a2c3-e5ee509eac1f
                © 2017 Jaracz et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 3 October 2016
                : 14 April 2017
                Page count
                Figures: 0, Tables: 6, Pages: 11
                Funding
                The authors received no specific funding for this work.
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