Staff burnout in Israeli battered women's shelters

The article reports the results of an exploratory study on the impact of sh elter work on shelter staff. Specifically, the study examined the relations hips between workers' personal variables, aspects of workers' position and workers' emotional burnout. The findings suggest that shelter workers in Is rael experience low levels of emotional burnout, high levels of work-relate d emotional disturbance after work hours and high levels of social support. Age, education, position percentage and years in current job were found to relate to various dimensions of emotional burnout.