Exploring the influence of core-self evaluations, situational factors, and coping on nurse burnout: A cross-sectional survey study University of Antwerp
Erik Franck, Helena Verheyen, Peter Vlerick
Stress has become an inherent aspect of the nursing profession. Chronically experienced work stress can lead to burnout. Although situational stressors show a significant influence on burnout, their power to predict the complete syndrome is rather limited. After all, stressors only exist “in the eye of the beholder”. This study aimed to explore how individual vulnerability factors such as core-self evaluations and coping, contribute to burnout in relation to situational stressors within a population of hospital nurses. Cross-sectional data was collected in 2014, using five validated ...