Personality Research Community Physicians Coping Relationships, Work Load And Job Burnout

As health carers, general practitioners(GP) play significant roles in China, when people have somatic illness, they can first go to community health station and see the GP; when walking is inconvenient, the GP will go and serve them in their houses, besides, GP will give the public useful massages about keeping health. China has explored a new way--mild illness attended in health station, the severe ones treated in hospitals and recovered in health station--as a unique community health care mode, this mode makes GPs’ work more and more important in China. Many Chinese investigators did studies about GPs’ work, few of them focused on the determinants of burnout. Then, there may be several approaches that personality affects burnout, from this perspective, we construct a structure model about this four variables-personality, workload, coping style and burnout, and use our data to test and verify the model.734GPs were investigated with Chinese Maslach Burnout Inventory, Job Demands and Decision Latitude,Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and Simple Coping Style Questionnaire. Simultaneously,268Secondary hospital’s clinicians and288Tertiary hospital’s clinicians which surveyed with Chinese Maslach Burnout Inventory and Job Demands and Decision Latitude were compared. The data were performed with descriptive analysis, t-test, correlation analysis, regression, confirmatory factor analysis and model construction.The results are shown as follows:1. The proportion of burnout is72.8%, the proportion of slight burnout is36.0%, the proportion of moderate burnout is33.5%, and the proportion of high burnout is3.3%. of which14.3%of the subjects have the presence of emotional exhaustion,47.7%in depersonalization,50.8%in low personal accomplishment. Then the GPs feel approximately middle-level workload. Compared with Secondary and Tertiary hospital’s clinicians, the GPs’s low personal accomplishment is very serious. The GPs whose personality characteristics exhibit psychoticism score high and introverted and emotional instability account for about28.3%. In addition, GPs will be more active coping styles and less negative coping styles.2. There have significant correlations among personality, workload, coping style and job burnout. 3. Personality, workload and coping style are significant predictor of job burnout.4. Workload and coping style could partly coordinate the relationship between personality and job burnout.