Effects of adult attachment and life orientation style on job burnout among nurses / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the relationship of adult attachment,life orientation style and job burnout among nurses.Methods Relationship Questionnaire (RQ) and Experience of close relationships (ECR) inventory were used to measure 566 nurses' adult attachment.Life orientation test (LOT-R) and Maslach's Burnout Inventory-General Scale (MBI-GS) were administrated to measure subjects'optimism,pessimism,and job burnout.Results ①Distribution of adult attachment style in nurses were 36％ for secure,29.3％ for dismissing,18.4％for preoccupied and 6.7％ for fearful.②Attachment avoidance were positive correlated with pessimism (r =0.139) and negative correlated with optimism (r =-0.212) significantly; and there was significant positive correlation between attachment avoidance and ineffectiveness (r=0.122) also.Attachment anxiety was positively related to pessimism (r=0.151),and three indexes of job burnout (r=0.238,0.281,0.143 respectively).Meanwhile,there were significant negative correlations among optimism and job burnout indexes (r =-0.12,-0.193,-0.230).③There were significant differences among four attachment groups on optimism and pessimism.For job burnout,the four groups had significant differences only on depersonalization,instead of ineffectiveness and emotion exhaustion.④ Regression analysis suggested that attachment anxious was a valid positive predictor of job burnout,while optimism was a negative predictor.Conclusion Both adult attachment and life orientation style are contributed to job burnout among nurses.