Title:
The relation between situation, personality, and religious problem-solving in the prediction of burnout among American Baptist clergy
Author:
Thomas E. Rodgerson
Thesis Advisor:
Joseph W. Ciarrocchi
Committee Member:
Joanne M. Greer
Committee Member:
Ralph L. Piedmont
Committee Member:
John R. Compton
Committee Member:
Robert J. Wicks
Committee Member:
David F. Roswell
Committee Member:
Lee J. Richmond
Degree Granting Institution:
Loyola University Maryland--College of Arts and Sciences
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Loyola University Maryland
Date Created:
1994
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
reformatted digital
Abstract:
Recent research shows that burnout is an atheoretical construct with some questions about its construct validity and with a lack of clarity about the nature and importance of its predictors. Using the psychological stress model of Lazarus and Folkman (1984) as a theoretical basis, the current study assessed the contribution of situation, personality, and religious problem-solving in the prediction of burnout in a random sample of 500 American Baptist clergy. Respondents (N = 252) completed the Maslach Burnout Inventory (Maslach and Jackson, 1986), the NEO-FFI (Costa and McCrae, 1991), the Religious Problem-Solving Scale (Pargament, et al., 1988), a portion of the Perceived Stress Scale (Cohen, 1983), the Health of Organization Scale, questions about recent shifts in their environment, and some Demographic questions. Results indicate that burnout is a general job dysphoria that taps equally into the broad-based constructs of controllability and depressive affect. Multiple regression analyses found that personality variables contributed the most in explaining the variance in burnout. Situational variables were not unimportant and explained more of the variance on the Depersonalization scale of the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Interactions of personality and situation were all non-significant, indicating the additive effects of personality and situation. Religious variables reached significance only on the Dpersonalization scale of the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Perceived control accounted for significant variance beyond that explained by the NEO-FFI, indicating a cognitive component to burnout.
Subject:
Baptists--Clergy
Subject:
Burn out (Psychology)--Religious aspects
Subject:
Psychology, Religious
Subject:
Occupational Stress
Subject:
Personality
Subject:
Problem Solving
Subject:
Religious Practices
Subject:
Clergy
Degree:
Doctor of Philosophy
Level:
Doctoral
Discipline:
Pastoral Counseling
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Identifier:
RodgersonTE-94
