The relation between job burnout and general health of judges and prosecutors working in courts of Tehran

The difficult nature of legal procedures led to define “judicial job” as a “hard job”. This study is performed to find the effective factors and relation between “burnout” and general health of the judges and prosecutors working at courts in Tehran. The study was conducted on all of judges and prosecutors working at courts in Tehran. The sample was selected based on random unequal ratio sampling. In this study we applied two standard questionnaires (MBI and GHQ-28) and analyzed the data by statistical parameters such as Pearson’s & spearman correlation coefficient, student t-test, regression coefficient, chi-square test and HSD. 32.7% of all the participants had some problems in general health and needed counseling services. Only 4.9% of them had severe problems in general health and needed more serious (e.g. psychotherapeutic or psychopharmacologic) interventions. Job burn out is higher in dimension of emotional fatigues and depersonalization and lower in dimension of personal functioning and occupational involvement, Also there is a meaningful correlation between general health and job burnout of the judges and prosecutors. One of the best ways for decreasing of job burnout and promoting the level of general health in judges and prosecutors is giving more attention to amend the managing styles, salary condition and relationship with other colleagues. In other words, rising of interest and producing motivation among judges and prosecutors will be effective in providing their general health.