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Occupational Burnout Among Employees in Some Service Occupations in Nigeria: Are Health Workers Different?

Author(s) / Creator(s)

Ogungbamila, Bolanle

Abstract / Description

Studies on occupational burnout among health workers, especially in Nigeria have been at best isolated. No adequate inter-occupational comparative study on burnout among health workers, police personnel, and teachers has been conducted. This study, therefore, investigated the extent to which health workers were different from police personnel, and teachers in the manifestations of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, reduced personal accomplishment, and overall occupational burnout. Participants were 455 employees (203 males; 252 females) sampled from 3 service occupations (police = 139; health = 159; teaching = 157), whose ages averaged 35.94 years (SD = 7.93). Health workers reported higher levels of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and overall occupational burnout than either police personnel or teachers. Although health workers reported a higher level of reduced personal accomplishment than police personnel, results indicated that teachers felt as underachieving as health workers. The findings were discussed in terms of the perceived imbalance in the job demands-rewards ratio in the job situations.

Keyword(s)

exhaustion cynicism underachievement Nigeria

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Date of first publication

2013-04-30

Journal title

Psychological Thought

Volume

6

Issue

1

Page numbers

153–165

Publisher

PsychOpen GOLD

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publishedVersion

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peerReviewed

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Ogungbamila, B. (2013). Occupational Burnout Among Employees in Some Service Occupations in Nigeria: Are Health Workers Different? Psychological Thought, 6(1), 153–165. https://doi.org/10.5964/psyct.v6i1.47
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Ogungbamila, Bolanle
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2018-11-28T10:01:49Z
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    2018-11-28T10:01:49Z
  • Date of first publication
    2013-04-30
  • Abstract / Description
    Studies on occupational burnout among health workers, especially in Nigeria have been at best isolated. No adequate inter-occupational comparative study on burnout among health workers, police personnel, and teachers has been conducted. This study, therefore, investigated the extent to which health workers were different from police personnel, and teachers in the manifestations of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, reduced personal accomplishment, and overall occupational burnout. Participants were 455 employees (203 males; 252 females) sampled from 3 service occupations (police = 139; health = 159; teaching = 157), whose ages averaged 35.94 years (SD = 7.93). Health workers reported higher levels of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and overall occupational burnout than either police personnel or teachers. Although health workers reported a higher level of reduced personal accomplishment than police personnel, results indicated that teachers felt as underachieving as health workers. The findings were discussed in terms of the perceived imbalance in the job demands-rewards ratio in the job situations.
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  • Publication status
    publishedVersion
  • Review status
    peerReviewed
  • Citation
    Ogungbamila, B. (2013). Occupational Burnout Among Employees in Some Service Occupations in Nigeria: Are Health Workers Different? Psychological Thought, 6(1), 153–165. https://doi.org/10.5964/psyct.v6i1.47
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  • ISSN
    2193-7281
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1550
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1916
  • Language of content
    eng
  • Publisher
    PsychOpen GOLD
  • Is version of
    https://doi.org/10.5964/psyct.v6i1.47
  • Keyword(s)
    exhaustion
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  • Keyword(s)
    cynicism
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  • Keyword(s)
    underachievement
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  • Keyword(s)
    Nigeria
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  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    Occupational Burnout Among Employees in Some Service Occupations in Nigeria: Are Health Workers Different?
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  • DRO type
    article
  • Issue
    1
  • Journal title
    Psychological Thought
  • Page numbers
    153–165
  • Volume
    6
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