How Medical Staff Alleviates Job Burnout through Sports Involvement: The Mediating Roles of Health Anxiety and Self-Efficacy

Xiuyu Chen, Longjun Jing, Huilin Wang () and Jingyu Yang
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Xiuyu Chen: School of Physical Education, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China
Longjun Jing: School of Physical Education, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China
Huilin Wang: School of Business, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China
Jingyu Yang: Department of Medical Bioinformatics, University of Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 18, 1-12

Abstract: In the current healthcare environment, job burnout among medical staff is increasingly evident. Burnout not only affects the mental and physical health and career development of individuals but also affects the quality of care and the doctor–patient relationship. This paper investigates the influence of sports involvement on burnout in medical staff based on the job demands–resources theory, focusing on the mediating role of health anxiety and self-efficacy in the relationship between sports involvement and job burnout. A questionnaire survey was used to collect data from 444 medical staff in public hospitals in Wuhan, China. Structural equation modeling (SEM) with a bootstrapping approach was conducted to test the hypothesis and mediating effects. It was found that health anxiety and self-efficacy played a significant mediating role between sports involvement and job burnout. The results indicate the important role that sports involvement plays in addressing burnout, revealing that decreasing health anxiety and increasing self-efficacy attenuated job burnout. This finding suggests that hospital administrators should not only pay attention to medical staff’s health conditions and improve their enthusiasm for work but also encourage them to become more engaged in sports.

Keywords: medical staff; job burnout; sports involvement; health anxiety; self-efficacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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