The aim of this study was to investigate the relation between Burnout, Optimism and
Support from Management in some Applied and Theoretical Faculties in a sample of
teachers at Tishreen University. The sample consists of120 teachers, who were recru
ited
from some Applied Faculties (Economy, Sciences, Civil Engineering, Electrical and
mechanical engineering, and Pharmacy) and from some Theoretical Faculties (Education,
Jura and Literatures).
We used an adapted and confirmative version of Maslach and others to asses
burnout (MBI; Maslach, Jackson, & Leiter,1996) as well as an adapted and confirmative
version subscale of the Spector Job Satisfaction Survey to assess support (JSS; Spector,
1995) .Optimism was measured by using an adapted and confirmative version of Satow
and Schwarzer Optimism scale (Satow&Schwarzer,1999(. Results indicated that :
There wasno a significant relation between teacher’ s burnout and support they
received from the management but there was a significantly positive relation between
optimism and support as well as a negative a significantly relation between burnout and
optimism
Burnout was negatively associated with experience
No a significantly differences between the mean scores of the teachers in Applied
and Theoretical faculties in burnout , optimism and support
Nursing is considered to be one of the most stressful professions among the human
services professions, it need compassion and involvement beyond physical care giving.
Nurses have tremendous responsibilities and deal with enormous challenges, Burno
ut is
one of these challenges, it is characterized by decreasing energy, power and resources in
the presence of excessive demands. It is one of the factors which influence the efficiency
and productivity of the workers and staff in every field. Aim: This descriptive study was
aimed to assess burnout among 135 nurses, were randomly chosen, working in various
section of Al-Assad university hospital. The data were collected by using a translated
version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey. Results: Showed high
levels of burnout among nurses as general Nurses working in Emergency Room, Intensive
Care, Operation Room with Baccholrius degree had high level of Emotional Exhaustio
(EE). Nurses young people experienced high level of Depronalization (D). Nurses working
in night shift showed low level of Personal Accomplishment (PA(.No statistical
significance was found between burnout and gende, marital status, work experience.
Conclusions: this problem must be studied more deeply and related factors should be
recognized in order to reduce burn out among nurses. Many affected aspects of nurse's job
should be noticed and appropriate intervention should be conducted.
Each health care organisation has certain characteristics in terms of activities and
work methods, that differentiate areorganisation from the other. These characteristics
represent the work environment that nurses work within. Nursing work environ
ment
received an international attention recentlyspecial emphasis on the importance of
improvinghospitals environment for its influence on organizational and individuals
outcomes such as absence of nurses, job dissatisfaction, nursing turnover , Burnout
,intention to leave the profession workplace, nursing represents an important part of an
essential element in the system of health care, work in the pressing environment can affect
the psychological health and arrival at Burnout .This study aim to study the impact of
nursing work environment on nurse’ burnout in critical care units in government hospital
settings in Lattakia. The study showed that the environment of nursing work environment
is unfavorable, from the point of view of more than half of the nursing staff participating in
the study 2,where the highest scoring of subscale was:/nurse physician communications
skills/ and lowest scoring of subscale was/nurse foundations for quality of care/ ,well as
the study showed the existence of a direct relationship between the work environment
unfavorable and burnout , and the work environment in all its dimensions affect the
burnout, where after /nurse manager's ability, leadership, and support of nurses/ where the
most influential dimensions in the nurse’ burnout, while /nurse-physician communications
skills/ the less influential dimensions in the development of nurse’ burnout, on , study
showed that there is a link between each of the dimensions of the an environment nursing
work and dimensions of the burnout, where that the / nurse foundations for quality of care/
importance of its role more than the impact in raising the rate of emotional exhaustion,
while after /nurse participation in organization affairs/ of the importance of its role more
than the dimensions of the work environment impact in raising the rate of
depersonalization, as it was after the / adequacy of resources and nurses/ more than the
dimensions of the work environment impact in reducing the proportion of personal
achievement.
This study aimed to detect the stress and Burnout among special
education teachers in the social welfare city of Homs and its
relationship with some demographic variables, such as gender,
income, salaries and Qualification
it included a sample st
udy from teachers in the institution and
numbered ( 66 ) teachers for the academic year 2015/2016.
