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An evaluation was undertaken among 194 Italian health care givers who worked in the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) centers in order to assess the possible correlation between individual variables such as sociodemographic and occupational characteristics, personality traits, anxiety, depression attitudes and emotional reactions and the experience of burnout and job satisfaction. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) was used along with a sociodemographic and occupational characteristics schedule, Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, Ipat Anxiety Scale, Ipat Depression Scale, and AIDS Impact Questionnaire. The findings of this study underscored the importance of some individual characteristics related to burnout and job satisfaction among the workers and stressed the role of their attitudes and emotional reactions towards AIDS. The results identified the factors important in developing burnout and personal accomplishment. Of the sociodemographic and occupational variables, age was the only one significantly related to burnout with the younger the subjects, the higher the burnout. Young age also emerged as a significant predictor for a high level of personal accomplishment. Practical nurses experienced less job satisfaction in comparison with physicians and registered nurses. The personality factors analysis suggests ego weakness as a predictor for burnout and shyness as a predictor of lack of personal accomplishment.
AIDS Care, 8(2):207-221, 1996. (65 references)
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