Role of Spiritual Health and Psychological Capital on Job Burnout among Nurses

Page: 279-283
Madiha Rehman (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Uttar Pradesh)

The nurses face many challenges and stressful situations and that is because of the nature of their work, pressure, and chaos on a day-to-day basis due to which they are likely to face more burnout. Burnout is generally described as exhaustion at physical, mental, and emotional levels. They performed multiple tasks such as providing direct medical care; fulfilling the patient’s need and comforting patient and their families. All these responsibilities can easily result in job burnout. Since burnout is an alarming situation nowadays, the proposed solution is focusing on increasing spiritual health and Psychological Capital or PsyCap of nurses. Spiritual health is emerging as an important tool in medical practice. Spiritual health is about the connection with the self, others, nature, and God. The concept of PsyCap which is generally regarded as a positive developmental state of an individual is a drive from ‘Positive Organizational Behaviour’. The present study aims to investigate the relationship between three variables, i.e., psychological capital, spiritual health, and job burnout among nurses. To fulfill the above objective Maslach Burnout Inventory, Spiritual Health Assessment Scale, and Psychological Capital questionnaire 24 (PCQ) 2007 were used. 130 participants from the public and private sectors were selected based on convenience sampling. The result of this study shows that spiritual health and psychological capital were significantly correlated with emotional exhaustion and personal accomplishments; however, depersonalization was not significantly correlated with either category. Spiritual health was found to be a significant predictor of job burnout, although psychological capital was not.