Gender, Marital Status, and Children as Risk Factors for Burnout in Nurses: A Meta-Analytic Study

Guillermo A. Cañadas- De la Fuente, Elena Ortega, Lucia Ramirez-Baena, Emilia I. De la Fuente-Solana, Cristina Vargas and Jose Luis Gómez-Urquiza
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Guillermo A. Cañadas- De la Fuente: Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Granada, Avenida de la Ilustración N. 60, 18016 Granada, Spain
Elena Ortega: Faculty of Psychology, University of Almería, Carretera Sacramento S.N., 04120 La Cañada, Almería, Spain
Lucia Ramirez-Baena: Brain, Mind and Behaviour Research Center (CIMCYC), University of Granada, Campus Universitario de Cartuja S.N., 18011 Granada, Spain
Emilia I. De la Fuente-Solana: Brain, Mind and Behaviour Research Center (CIMCYC), University of Granada, Campus Universitario de Cartuja S.N., 18011 Granada, Spain
Cristina Vargas: Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia, Avenida de Blasco Ibáñez N. 13, 46010 Valencia, Spain
Jose Luis Gómez-Urquiza: Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Granada, Avenida de la Ilustración N. 60, 18016 Granada, Spain

IJERPH, 2018, vol. 15, issue 10, 1-13

Abstract: The correlation between the burnout syndrome and sociodemographic variables in nursing professionals has been widely studied though research results are contradictory. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of gender, marital status, and children on the dimensions of the burnout syndrome (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment) in nursing professionals, as measured with the Maslach Burnout Inventory. The search was performed in May 2018 in the next databases: CINAHL, CUIDEN, Dialnet, Psicodoc, ProQuest Platform, OVID Platform, and Scopus with the search equation (“Maslach Burnout Inventory” OR “MBI”) AND “nurs*”, without using any search restriction. The sample was n = 78 studies: 57 studies for gender; 32 for marital status; 13 for having children. A statistically significant relation between depersonalization and gender ( r = 0.078), marital status ( r = 0.047), and children ( r = 0.053) was found. A significant relation was also found between emotional exhaustion and children ( r = 0.048). The results showed that being male, being single or divorced, and not having children were related to the highest levels of burnout in nurses. Moreover, these relations could be accentuated by the influence of moderator variables (age, seniority, job satisfaction, etc.), which, in combination with the previously mentioned significant relations, should be evaluated in the design burnout risk profiles for nursing professionals.

Keywords: burnout; Maslach Burnout Inventory; meta-analysis; nurses; sociodemographic risk factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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