Relationship among A-type behavior,job burnout and psychosomatic health in grassroots officers and soldiers stationed in Xinjiang / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the relationship among A-type behavior,job burnout and psychosomatic health in grassroots officers and soldiers stationed in Xinjiang, which provides the theoretical basis to maintain their psychosomatic health.Methods Evaluation was carried out with A-type behavior questionnaire, military job burnout scale and simple soldiers psychosomatic health scale in 1 939 grassroots officers and soldiers chosen by random cluster sampling method from army stationed in Xinjiang.Results ①The total scores and each factor scores of the scale had significant positive correlation among the physical scale, the job buruout scale and time hurry (TH) ,competitive and hostility (CH) (r=0.170-0.716, P＜0.01).②Job burnout entered into the physical and mental health regression equation and could explain 68.6％ of the variance(β=0.195, t=32.211, P＜0.01);TH, CH entered the regression equation of job burnout and could explain 29.5％ of the variance(t=4.925,4.427).③ TH indirectly affected physical and mental health through job burnout, the mediating effect of the amount was 0.27 ×0.83=0.2241;CH indirectly affected physical and mental health by job bumout,the mediating effect of the amount was 0.30×0.83 =0.2490.Conclusion Job burnout has fully mediated effect between TH, CH and physical and mental health.