Investigating the relationship between emotional intelligence and job burnout among operating room staff in Zahedan 2016

Mahboobeh Doostkami, Maryam Sarbishegi

Anatomy Department, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran.

ABSTRACT

Nurses are highly exposed to burnout due to their job conditions. But in same environment individuals get different levels of burnout in job. In other words burnout is a result of environmental factors, personal communications and personal characteristics. Emotional intelligence is a personal factor which can be related to job burnout. So this study aimed to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and job burnout among operating room staff in Zahedan 2016. 48 operating room staff participated this study. The Bradbury-Graves emotional intelligence questionnaire and Maslachs job burnout questionnaire was used for data collection. After that data were analyzed through SPSS v.19 by descriptive statistics, Pearsons correlation and T test. 11 males and 37 females participated this study which 14 of them were single and 34 were married. The mean of age was 30.12 ± 5.56. The mean score of emotional intelligence was 108.66± 12.04 which means a high emotional intelligence and the mean score of job burnout was 63.08 ± 9.01. There wasn’t any significant relationship between emotional intelligence and job burnout. Despite this that there wasn’t any significant relationship between emotional intelligence and job burnout but most of those who had a high emotional intelligence had lower job burnout.

Keywords: Emotional intelligence, Job burnout, Operating room