Work context, personal control, and burnout amongst nurses Allen, Jacqui and Mellor, David 2002, Work context, personal control, and burnout amongst nurses, Western journal of nursing research, vol. 24, no. 8, pp. 905-917, doi: 10.1177/019394502237701. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Work context, personal control, and burnout amongst nurses Author(s) Allen, Jacqui orcid.org/0000-0002-3610-1335 Mellor, David orcid.org/0000-0001-5007-5906 Journal name Western journal of nursing research Volume number 24 Issue number 8 Start page 905 End page 917 Publisher Sage Publications Place of publication Thousand Oaks, Calif. Publication date 2002 ISSN 0193-9459 1552-8456 Keyword(s) nursing research work environment - psychological aspects nurses - psychological aspects Summary While situational factors such as high workloads have been found to be predictive of burnout, not all people in the same work context develop burnout. This suggests that individual factors are implicated in susceptibility to burnout. We investigated the relationships between care type (acute/chronic), neuroticism, control (primary/secondary), and symptoms of burnout (exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced professional efficacy) amongst 21 chronic care nurses and 83 acute care nurses working in a public hospital in regional Australia. Similar levels of burnout symptomatology and neuroticism were found in each group of nurses, and neuroticism was found to be associated with exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced professional efficacy in the total sample of nurses. Our prediction that primary control would protect against burnout symptoms in acute care nurses was supported only for professional efficacy, and the prediction that secondary control would protect against burnout in chronic care nurses was not supported. Language eng DOI 10.1177/019394502237701 Field of Research 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2002, Sage Publications Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30001523 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Faculty of Health School of Psychology Higher Education Research Group Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 10 Mar 2009, 08:53:45 EST Tue, 21 Apr 2009, 14:44:01 EST Tue, 24 Aug 2010, 09:29:19 EST Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 21:14:34 EST Wed, 02 Jul 2014, 15:23:11 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 26 times in TR Web of Science Cited 33 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1053 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 07:59:19 EST