Mehirban M. Abdullaeva, Russian Federation
Lomonosov Moscow State University Faculty of PsychologyAuthor Of 2 Presentations
Psychological support of hospice medical staff work - EPP0752
Abstract
Introduction
This article is devoted to discussing the results of a comprehensive study of the hospice workers activity providing palliative care to patients on the incurable stage of the disease. The relevance of this study is connected with the need to develop objective criteria for assessing professional success and creating programs of psychological support for hospice personnel.
Objectives
Our research was focused on the current work of hospice medical staff and the factors that influence their motivation.
Methods
42 medical workers of hospice took part in the study. The respondents were offered to fill in a set of 6 techniques aimed at job satisfaction, professional burnout, personality traits and motivational structure. Statistic elaboration was carried out with the pack SPSS, version 17.
Results
The data obtained confirm that job satisfaction of hospice employees is formed as a result of the interaction of the personal characteristics of the respondents and the organizational environment. Quick Cluster Analysis method was applied and the entire sample of respondents was split in two groups – “active, efficient” and “passive, executive”. The revealed differences between the two groups (significant level p<0.05) associated with different “sources” of job satisfaction of the sample as a whole - focus on comfort and creative implementation or their resistance to the occurrence of professional burnout.
Conclusions
The results of the study showed the possibility of separating two "quality" different groups of hospice workers, so psychological support for their work should be carried out in accordance with this specificity.
Psychosemantic features of “object of labour” in physicians with deferent level of burnout - EPP0869
Abstract
Introduction
Mental health of physicians whose work is stressful due to high cost of professional errors and risk of emotional burnout is a persistent theme for psychological research (Maslaсh, 1981). This study is focused on semantic features of professionals’ treatment of a person as their ‘subject of labour’, which function as a "discriminator" of professionals with different level of burnout.
Objectives
The main objective of the study was to analyze the semantic appraisals of a professionally valuable object that would allow us to identify professionals with different level of burnout.
Methods
64 physicians of maternity hospitals took part in the study. We supposed that physicians with different level of burnout would variously describe the main object of their work, which is specified in our study with the words “Man” and “Patient”. The respondents filled in two forms “Integral job satisfaction” and ”Professional burnout”, and two psychosemantic methods – “Unfinished sentences” and 14-scale semantic differential. Statistic elaboration was carried out with the pack SPSS, version 17.
Results
The procedure of cluster analysis allowed to identify two groups of physicians with different level of burnout (Mann-Whitney test, p<0.05). The results confirm the difference between these groups by describing the features of meaningful professional object of their work.
Conclusions
The data obtained reveal the following semantic characteristics of the authors’ texts, "the emotional tone rating", "share the semantic match of descriptions of “Man” and “Patient", "the abstractness/concreteness of the descriptions” that allow to define professionals with different level of professional well-being.
Presenter of 2 Presentations
Psychological support of hospice medical staff work - EPP0752
Abstract
Introduction
This article is devoted to discussing the results of a comprehensive study of the hospice workers activity providing palliative care to patients on the incurable stage of the disease. The relevance of this study is connected with the need to develop objective criteria for assessing professional success and creating programs of psychological support for hospice personnel.
Objectives
Our research was focused on the current work of hospice medical staff and the factors that influence their motivation.
Methods
42 medical workers of hospice took part in the study. The respondents were offered to fill in a set of 6 techniques aimed at job satisfaction, professional burnout, personality traits and motivational structure. Statistic elaboration was carried out with the pack SPSS, version 17.
Results
The data obtained confirm that job satisfaction of hospice employees is formed as a result of the interaction of the personal characteristics of the respondents and the organizational environment. Quick Cluster Analysis method was applied and the entire sample of respondents was split in two groups – “active, efficient” and “passive, executive”. The revealed differences between the two groups (significant level p<0.05) associated with different “sources” of job satisfaction of the sample as a whole - focus on comfort and creative implementation or their resistance to the occurrence of professional burnout.
Conclusions
The results of the study showed the possibility of separating two "quality" different groups of hospice workers, so psychological support for their work should be carried out in accordance with this specificity.
Psychosemantic features of “object of labour” in physicians with deferent level of burnout - EPP0869
Abstract
Introduction
Mental health of physicians whose work is stressful due to high cost of professional errors and risk of emotional burnout is a persistent theme for psychological research (Maslaсh, 1981). This study is focused on semantic features of professionals’ treatment of a person as their ‘subject of labour’, which function as a "discriminator" of professionals with different level of burnout.
Objectives
The main objective of the study was to analyze the semantic appraisals of a professionally valuable object that would allow us to identify professionals with different level of burnout.
Methods
64 physicians of maternity hospitals took part in the study. We supposed that physicians with different level of burnout would variously describe the main object of their work, which is specified in our study with the words “Man” and “Patient”. The respondents filled in two forms “Integral job satisfaction” and ”Professional burnout”, and two psychosemantic methods – “Unfinished sentences” and 14-scale semantic differential. Statistic elaboration was carried out with the pack SPSS, version 17.
Results
The procedure of cluster analysis allowed to identify two groups of physicians with different level of burnout (Mann-Whitney test, p<0.05). The results confirm the difference between these groups by describing the features of meaningful professional object of their work.
Conclusions
The data obtained reveal the following semantic characteristics of the authors’ texts, "the emotional tone rating", "share the semantic match of descriptions of “Man” and “Patient", "the abstractness/concreteness of the descriptions” that allow to define professionals with different level of professional well-being.