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. 1991 Jul;16(7):850-7.
doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1991.tb01767.x.

Personality hardiness, ways of coping, social support and burnout in critical care nurses

A Boyle  1 , M J Grap, J Younger, D Thornby
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Personality hardiness, ways of coping, social support and burnout in critical care nurses

A Boyle et al. J Adv Nurs. 1991 Jul.

Abstract

Hardiness, ways of coping, social support and burnout in 103 critical care nurses were addressed in this study. Work-related and nonwork-related social support and hardiness were negatively related to burnout. Use of emotion-focused coping was positively correlated with burnout while hardiness was negatively related to the use of emotion-focused coping and positively related to both types of social support. After controlling for working nights, social support, hardiness, emotion-focused coping and problem-focused coping accounted for 44% of the variance in burnout scores.

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