Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Resilience from a Variety of Theoretical Perspectives: an Introduction
- I RESILIENCE IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND THE EXISTENTIAL CONTEXTS
- II SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF RESILIENCE
- III PROMOTING OF RESILIENCE AND ASSISTED RESILIENCE
- IV THREATS TO MENTAL HEALTH
- Intrapsychic and Sociodemographic Correlates of the Quality of Life in Mothers of Children with Motoric Disability of Neurologic Etiology
- Types of Personality, Styles of Coping with Stress and Professional Burnout among Social Workers
- Communication Disorders as a Threat for Mental Health of Patients with Brain Damage and Their Immediate Environment
- Resilience Measure Questionnaire (KOP-26). Construction and Characteristic of Psychological Instrument
- List of Authors
Types of Personality, Styles of Coping with Stress and Professional Burnout among Social Workers
from IV - THREATS TO MENTAL HEALTH
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2018
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Resilience from a Variety of Theoretical Perspectives: an Introduction
- I RESILIENCE IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND THE EXISTENTIAL CONTEXTS
- II SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF RESILIENCE
- III PROMOTING OF RESILIENCE AND ASSISTED RESILIENCE
- IV THREATS TO MENTAL HEALTH
- Intrapsychic and Sociodemographic Correlates of the Quality of Life in Mothers of Children with Motoric Disability of Neurologic Etiology
- Types of Personality, Styles of Coping with Stress and Professional Burnout among Social Workers
- Communication Disorders as a Threat for Mental Health of Patients with Brain Damage and Their Immediate Environment
- Resilience Measure Questionnaire (KOP-26). Construction and Characteristic of Psychological Instrument
- List of Authors
Summary
Abstract
The issue of physical and mental health is an important aim of research around, especially in the time of huge demands and challenges in the workplace. One of the ideas focusing on the good functioning of the unit, despite stressful conditions or demands is resilience conception (Garmezy, 2006; Rutter, 1987; Werner, 1994, 2000). This contributes to the search for individual characteristics that increase probability to overcome stress and coping with.
The research problem concerns personal determinants of professional burnout among social workers.
The aim was to establish: do the special types of personality exist among social workers, which of them impersonate the highest level of burnout and which styles of coping with stress are used by samples with high and low level of professional burnout? The study involved 296 polish social workers employed in municipal centers of social assistance. The methods were: Cattell's 16 Personality Questionnaire (16 PF-5), Questionnaire of Coping with Stressful Situations (CISS) and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI).
The results indicate, there are four types of personality among social workers, with different levels of burnout, including the highest: type – logical but very unstable emotionally tense, vigilant and fearful, inflexible, conservative, and type of the lowest level of burnout: logical, serious, calm, careful and conventional. Type of the highest level of burnout prefers style of coping with stress concentrated on emotions and avoiding but type of the lowest burnout – style concentrated on the task.
Key words: professional burnout, types of personality, coping with stress, social worker
Introduction
The issue of physical and mental health is an important aim of research around the world, especially in the time of huge demands and challenges in the workplace. Health research concern both attempts to understand and reduce the risk factors and strengthening personal resources to cope with stress. One of the ideas focusing on the good functioning of the person, despite difficult and stressful living conditions or demands is resilience conception (Garmezy, 2006; Rutter, 1987; Werner, 1994, 2000). Literally resilience means: flexibility, elasticity, resistance or regeneration. It can be understood as a positive or protective process, which reduces the inappropriateness of the person exposed to stressors, so that the retains a relatively good mental health. It considers the interactions and protection factors.
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- Resilience and Health in a Fast-changing World , pp. 205 - 220Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2015