Browsing by Subject "Burnout"

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    the Examination of the Relationship Between Disc Profile Scores and Women Collegiate Coaches’ Burnout Scores
    (2020-05) Arbeiter, McKenzie
    Coaching is a career fueled by competitions and high emotions, which makes it at risk for burnout, especially for women coaches. With the percentage of women coaching women at the NCAA D1 Collegiate level declining from 90% to 40% since the passage of Title IX (LaVoi, 2013; 2014; 2015; 2016; 2017; 2018) and the importance of women coached by women, it is imperative to explore the barriers these women face (Lockwood, 2009). Burnout is an individual factor listed in the individual level of the Ecological Intersectional Model (EIM) of Barriers and Supports for Women Coaches. As reflected in the burnout literature, coaches report moderate to high levels of burnout (Kelley, 1994; Kelley & Gill, 1993). There is a need to find ways to prevent and reduce the prevalence of burnout. Burnout is a factor that contributes to high coach turnover rates, therefore reducing the prevalence of burnout may help retain women coaches in sport. Both external factors and internal factors have been shown to influence burnout. Those in helping careers, like sport coaches, tend to exhibit higher levels of burnout (Dixon & Bruening, 2005), and sport coaching is a social-relational endeavor conducted in a context of high emotion and zero-sum competition. Literature exists which examines the relationship between individual factors and burnout using five factor dimension personality tests, like the Big Five, in careers susceptible to burnout. However, no researchers have used a similar test designed specifically for athletes and coaches. In this research I aim to explore the relationship between individual factors and burnout in women collegiate coaches by using the CoachDISC by Athlete Assessments. This study used pre-existing subset of data from a larger project of NCAA women coaches who were surveyed prior to attending a women-focused educational program.
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    The experience of burnout among primary care physicians
    (2012-12) Gregory, Sean Thomas
    This dissertation addressed three specific aims, (1) the impact of an organizational change on the experience of burnout for primary care physicians, (2) the fit of a model for burnout in the primary care setting, and (3) modeling the trajectory of the three dimensions of burnout. The research was conducted with primary care physicians employed by a large integrated delivery system in the upper midwest United States, by observing a natural experiment occurring in the owned primary care practices.
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    A mixed methods study of the impact of providing therapy to traumatized clients: vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and vicarious posttraumatic growth in mental health therapists
    (2014-07) Froman, Monica Simone
    The purpose of this research was to examine the impact of trauma therapy work on mental health professionals who work with traumatized clients. ANOVA's were used to compare participants by experience and exposure level on measures of vicarious trauma (VT) compassion satisfaction (CS), and vicarious posttraumatic growth (VPTG). MANOVA was used to compare participants by experience and exposure level on the two components of compassion fatigue (CF), burnout (BO) and secondary traumatic stress (STS). A hierarchical regression equation was used to explore whether STS and VT predicted VPTG. In addition, a qualitative component examined negative and positive effects of the therapy work. The results of the study were: There were no differences on mental health professionals' scores of VT, STS and BO, or CS based on differences of mental health professionals' exposure to traumatized clients. There were significant differences between high and low exposure caseload groups on scores of VPTG; participants in the high exposure group had significantly higher scores of VPTG than participants in the low exposure group. There were no differences on amount of VT, STS and BO, or CS and VPTG as a result of differences among mental health professionals' experience level. A hierarchical regression analysis showed that the predictor variables of STS and VT did not increase the percentage of variance accounted for by the dependent variable, VPTG, which was already accounted for by the covariate variable of exposure. Main qualitative themes included: experiencing symptoms of VT, and the components of CF (STS and BO), as well as experiencing aspects of VR, VPTG, and CS.
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    Pediatric nurses‘ grief experience: its relationship with burnout and job satisfaction.
    (2010-07) Adwan, Jehad Zaki
    The goal of this correlational study on 120 pediatric nurses was to examine relationships among grief experience following patients death, burnout, job satisfaction, and other environmental variables. Measurement used the Revised Grief Experience Inventory (RGEI), Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), Index of Work Satisfaction (IWS) and Demographic Information Form (DIF). Results showed grief to have significant correlations; positive with burnout, negative with job satisfaction. Some nurses tended to have significantly higher emotional exhaustion if more of their primary patients died and higher guilt if dying patients were younger. Conclusions suggest a dynamic interaction among grief, burnout, job satisfaction, and environmental variables where they interact and relate to nurses' intention to leave unit, organization, or nursing. Recommendations for practice call for grief intervention and education programs. Recommended future research includes RGEI instrument refinement, evaluation of grief intervention and education programs and their impact on burnout and job satisfaction as outcome variables.