Date of Award
8-17-2002
Document Type
Thesis
Abstract
This research was designed to address the issue of burnout by developing and presenting a workshop to 26 human service providers (primarily educated Caucasian women) to increase their level of social support and address organizational concerns. Two measures were used in a pre-posttest design: the Maslach Burnout Inventory and social support questionnaire developed for this study. The results showed that burnout dropped significantly on the emotional exhaustion subscale. There was a drop in the depersonalization subscale but it only approached significance. There was also a negative correlation of perceived social support satisfaction with emotional exhaustion and depersonalization at both pre and posttest. Building social support has implications for reducing burnout. Studies with quasi-experimental designs and larger samples are needed to further validate the findings of this study.
Recommended Citation
Bates, David Brian, "A workshop assessing the effects of social support on the incidence of burnout" (2002). Psychology . 10.
https://ualaska.researchcommons.org/uaf_grad_psychology/10
Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/11122/6313