Relationship between job stress and burnout among employees of the prison staff and the quality of working life-in Ardebil

Fallahi, Somayeh and Khaleghkhah, Ali and Rezaie Sharif, Ali (2016) Relationship between job stress and burnout among employees of the prison staff and the quality of working life-in Ardebil. Masters thesis, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili.

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Abstract

Occupational burnout is one of the substantial factors in efficiency, effectiveness and loss of human force including physical and psychological problems especially in occupations of human services and its decrease in different ways including improvement of quality level of occupational life in stressful occupational environments such as prisons can cause increase of satisfactory of employees and effectiveness of organizations. This study aims to investigate the relationship between occupational stress and quality of occupational life of employees by their occupational burnout in prisons of Ardabil Province. Methodology: This study is of descriptive-correlational kind and its statistical population includes all of 210 persons employed in Ardabil prisons in first half of 1395. Samples were chosen by simple random method and the researcher succeeded in receiving 130 filled questionnaires. Used tools included three questionnaires including Questionnaire of Maslach Job Stress, Questionnaire of Maslach Burnout Inventory and Questionnaire of Valton’s Occupational Life Quality and data was analyzed by statistical software. In descriptive statistics, frequency table, frequency percentage, mean, standard deviation and diagram and in referential statistics, statistical tests of independent t-groups, one-way variance analysis, Tukey follow-up and Pearson’s correlation test were used.Findings: Based on P<0.05, it can be inferred that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between job stress and its dimensions with occupational burnout. Based on P<0.05, it can be inferred that there is a meaningful and poor relationship between quality dimensions of occupational life and occupational burnout. There is not a meaningful integration between payment dimensions, growth opportunity supply, policy making and then social dependency but safe workplace dimensions as much as 19 percent and development of human capacities 31 percent are meaningful in 95 percent confidence level. Among dimensions of quality of occupational life, development of human capacities has much share in participation of occupational burnout. Conclusion: Presence of occupational burnout in employees of prisons of Ardabil confirms the necessity of taking new policies to modify and prevent from this phenomenon. By focusing on programs of improvement of quality of occupational life, one can step in this regard.

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