Empathy and burnout in medical staff: mediating role of job satisfaction and job commitment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Burnout is a growing problem among medical staff worldwide and empathy has been described as an essential competence to attenuate burnout. Previous studies found job satisfaction and job commitment were affected by the empathy and associated with burnout. This study explores the effect and mechanism of empathy on burnout on medical staff and investigates the mediating role of job satisfaction and job commitment in the relationship between empathy and burnout among medical staff.

Methods

Based on a self-administered questionnaire which included the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) to measure burnout, 335 responses from medical staff in Tianjin City, China, yielded data on socio-demographic characteristics, empathy, burnout, job satisfaction and job commitment. Bivar

SUBMITTER: Yue Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9125814 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature