Relationship between Job Burnout, Dimensions of Meta-Emotion and Distress Tolerance in Mashhad Forensic Medicine Employees

The progress of any organization depends on having a healthy and efficient human resources. The aim of this study was to relationship between  job burnout , Distress  Tolerance and Dimensions  of  meta-emotion  in  Forensic  Medicine   employee .

in this  cross-sectional study ,  the  sample size consisted of 45 employees in  legal medicine  in Mashhad (1399) which were  selected by  available sampling  . Data was collected by “Demographic Data” and “Maslach Burnout Inventory” (MBI) questionnaires and Simmon and Gahers Distress Tolerance Questionnaire  and  The Positive Metacognitions and Positive Meta-Emotions Questionnaire (PMCEQ) of Beer and Moneta. After distributing and collecting the questionnaires, the data were analyzed in SPSS-21 software. The Kolomograph-Smirnov test was used to test the normality of the data. The significance level of all tests was considered( 0.05) .  

The mean score of emotional exhaustion was (2.67±1.55), depersonalization (1.52±1.59) and the personality depersonalization respectively ( 2.92±1.19) Which indicated moderate burnout in emotional exhaustion  and high burnout in lack of personal accomplishment  . There was a significant relationship between Dimensions of meta-emotion and Distress Tolerance variables and job burnout variable and its dimensions

Conclusion

Considering the effect of burnout on job, family and individual performance and its relationship with stress tolerance and dimensions of meta-emotion, the importance of reducing environmental stressors by organizing job factors as well as psychological skills training should be considered.