A TEST OF CARVER AND SCHEIERS SELF-CONTROL MODEL OF STRESS IN EXPLORING BURNOUT AMONG MENTAL-HEALTH NURSES

A sample of Australian psychiatric nurses completed a questionnaire wh ich included operational measures of elements of Carver and Scheier's self-control model of stress including the frequency dimension of the subscales of the Maslach Burnout Inventory - emotional exhaustion, dep ersonalization, and diminished accomplishment. Other scales completed by participants included independent subscales contained in the Positi ve and Negative Affectivity Scale and the private and public self-focu s and social anxiety subscales of the Serf-Consciousness Scale (Revise d). Two interpretable canonical variates labelled emotional exhaustion -depersonalization and diminished accomplishment were derived from ana lysis of the date. Each element of the self-control model showed an ex pected contribution to an emotional exhaustion-depersonalization canon ical variate, whereas reported levels of only positive affectivity and private self-focus made a notable contribution to explanation of vari ance on the diminished accomplishment canonical variate.