A Structural Equation Model of Job Burnout and Stress-Related Personality Factors in Aviators
Objective To develop a model of job burnout and stress related personality factors among aviators using SEM. Method Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey and 3 personality questionnaires were conducted in 167 pilots. Results Structural equation model (
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Abstract Objective To develop a model of job burnout and stress related personality factors among aviators using SEM. Method Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey and 3 personality questionnaires were conducted in 167 pilots. Results Structural equation model (SEM) shows negative impact of extraversion, internal control, and hardiness on job burnout (−0.16, −0.11, −0.24), positive impact of psychoticism, neuroticism, and external control on job burnout (0.40, 0.73, 0.13). The fitness indices indicate that the structural model is proper (RMSEA = 0.060 < 0.08). Conclusion The findings suggest that MBI-GS is acceptable in research on pilots’ job burnout. Emotion stability is the predictor of job burnout. According to ASLOC, pilots that feeling low level of control on safety maybe susceptible to job burnout, which accords with the fact that aviation is high risky. Keywords Job burnout
Personality Stress Structural equation model Pilots
1 Introduction With the development of economy and society, the world was becoming strained more and more. A lot of studies showed that excessive job stress is always related with negative outcome in job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and employees’ well-being. Thus it would do harm to morale and performance [1, 2]. In recent years, job burnout has become a hot issue in the field of job stress. More and Q. Liu Y. Wang BeiHang University, Beijing 100183, China e-mail: [email protected] Q. Liu Y. Wang X. Guo F. Peng Y. Zhang Y. Bai D. Xiong (&) Institute of Aviation Medicine Air Force, Beijing 100142, China e-mail: [email protected] T. Jiang Troops 93277 PLA, Shenyang 110141, China © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016 S. Long and B.S. Dhillon (eds.), Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 406, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-2323-1_13
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more people suffer from job burnout, especially in several occupations. Aviation is high risky and stressful. Pilots must cope with many kinds of job stressors. Pilots may be susceptible to job burnout because of the impact of stressful flight training and sharp social change. Burnout was first defined by Freudenberger [3] as a special kind of distress in workplace. He found a series of symptoms in young workers who were volunteers in a clinic. They were gradually becoming emotional exhausted, losing motivation, and commitment towards work. After series studies on social services staff Maslach [4] suggested that staff’s indifference and irrespective to the clients were important problems in burnout. According to Masclach [5] burnout is “a psychological syndrome of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and a feeling of reduced professional accomplishment that can occur among individuals working with other people in some capacity”. In early phase, study on job burnout was among those who do “people work” (such as teachers, students, customers, patients). However, previous researches have shown that in almost all occupational populations the core symptom
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