Effect of health promoting lifestyle on job burnout of college counselors in Shanghai City / 中国职业医学

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the relationship between health promoting lifestyle and job burnout of college counselors in Shanghai. METHODS: Using stratified cluster sampling method, 294 counselors from 4 colleges were selected and investigated by Maslach Burnout Inventory Educator's Survey and Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II. RESULTS: The median scores of emotional exhaustion, deindividualization and low sense of achievement of counselors in Shanghai were 3.3, 3.2 and 1.6 respectively. In each dimension, the ratio of moderate burnout were 93.5%, 95.2% and 26.5% respectively. The ratio of high level burnout were 6.5%, 4.8% and 73.5%. The median total score of health promoting lifestyle was 127.1, and the ratio of poor, average and good lifestyle standard was 8.5%, 50.3% and 41.2%.The total score of health promoting lifestyle was negatively correlated with the score of emotional exhaustion and deindividualization(P<0.01) and positively correlated with the score of low sense of achievement(P<0.01). The score of physical exercise, interpersonal relationship, stress management and self realization in health promoting lifestyle had positive predictive effect on the score of emotional exhaustion and deindividualization(P<0.05). The score of physical exercise and self realization had negative predictive effect on the score of low sense of achievement(P<0.01). CONCLUSION: The prevalence of job burnout in college counselors is above the intermediate level. There is a correlation between health promoting lifestyle and job burnout and cultivating a health promoting lifestyle is helpful to alleviate job burnout.