Compassion Satisfaction and Fatigue, Emotional Dissonance, and Burnout in Therapists in Rehabilitation Hospitals

Abstract

This study was an examination of the relationship between emotional dissonance and burnout among therapists working in rehabilitation hospitals. The mediating effects of compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue were verified through structural equation modeling. The participants were 204 therapists working at rehabilitation hospitals located in a metropolitan area, and they completed the Emotional Dissonance Scale, the Maslach Burnout Inventory, and the Professional Quality of Life Scale. The results are as follows. First, emotional dissonance, compassion satisfaction, and compassion fatigue had significant correlations with burnout. Second, mediating effects of compassion satisfaction/fatigue were found in the relationship between emotional dissonance and burnout. Consequently, emotional dissonance had both direct and indirect effects on burnout. Lastly, this study's implications, limitations and suggestions for future study are presented.

Merhamet Doyumu Ölçeği̇ni̇n Geli̇şti̇ri̇lmesi̇

“…Son yıllarda merhamet doyumu konusunda birçok çalışma yapıldığı (Örneğin; Knaak, Christie, Mercer ve Stuart, 2019) yapılan çalışmaların çoğunun da sağlık alanında görev yapan personellere yönelik gerçekleştirildiği görülmektedir (Dasan, Gohil, Cornelius ve Taylos, 2015;Hegney ve diğerleri, 2013). Birçok araştırmada, merhamet doyumu ile merhamet yorgunluğunun birlikte incelenmiş (DePanfilis, 2006; Annalakshmi ve Jayanthy, 2019) ve merhamet doyumu ile merhamet yorgunluğu arasında negatif ve anlamlı bir korelasyon bulunduğu belirtilmiştir (Kim, Ha ve Jue, 2020;Jarrad ve Hammad, 2020). Ayrıca yapılan araştırmalarda merhamet doyumunun öz bakım (Alkema ve diğerleri, 2008), farkındalık (Decker, Brown, Ong ve Stiney-Ziskind, 2015;Martin-Cuellar, Atencio, Kelly ve Lardier, 2018), öz bakım aktiviteleri, değerlerin gelişmesi (Stainfield ve Baptist, 2019), duygusal uyumsuzluk (Kim, Ha ve Jue, 2020), tükenmişlik (Jarrad ve Hammad, 2020), olumlu duygular/düşünceler, stres yönetimi, zihinsel, sosyal ve fiziksel kaynaklar (Radey ve Figley, 2007) gibi pek çok faktörle ilişkili olduğu saptanmıştır.…”

Compassion as a Source of Satisfaction and Fear in Professionals Who Work With People

“…From this perspective, compassion satisfaction can be thought of as the opposite of both compassion fatigue (Coetzee & Klopper, 2010) and secondary traumatic stressors (Young et al, 2011). Research has shown that compassion satisfaction is related to many factors including self-care, mindfulness, the development of values, emotional maladjustment, burnout, positive emotions/thoughts, stress management and mental, social and physical resources (Alkema et al, 2008; Decker et al, 2015; Jarrad & Hammad, 2020; Kim et al, 2020; Martin-Cuellar et al, 2018; Radey & Figley, 2007; Stainfield & Baptist, 2019). Compassion satisfaction has been reported to be negatively correlated with negative personality traits such as Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy (Papazoglou et al, 2019), and can improve people’s contributions to their professional fields and improve their human capacities.…”