A study on the relationship between job burnout and couple burnout of female gynecologists (Case study: Tehran)

The third millennium has witnessed an outstanding development of technology and industry which has consequently led to increasing job specialization on one hand and growth of job stress on the other hand. Research has found out that stress has direct effect on human beings in terms of psychological, physical, and familial activities. “The professional staff in human service institutions is often required to spend considerable time in intense involvement with other people. Frequently, the staff-client interaction is centered on the client's current problems (psychological, social, and/or physical) and is therefore charged with feelings of anger, embarrassment, fear or despair. With people under such circumstances, the chronic stress can be emotionally draining and poses the risk of 'burnout' (Maslash and Jakson, p,981. P. 101). A number of jobs are very sensitive due to the specific responsibilities and duties that the person in charge is undertaking. Surgery and specialties like obstetrics and gynecology are among those professions. In Iran, regarding this field of study, the majority of specialists are female. This research was prompted by issues regarding career tensions and the family responsibilities of female specialists at home."Burnout" is a psychological term for the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest. Research indicates general practitioners have the highest proportion of burnout cases. However, burnout is not a recognized disorder. The well-studied measurement of burnout in the literature is the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Maslach and her colleague Jackson first identified the construct "burnout" in the 1970s, and developed a measure that weighs the effects of emotional exhaustion and reduced sense of personal accomplishment. The goal of this research is to study the relationship between Job Burnout and Couple Burnout among female physicians. The study is a quantitative research and it makes use of Maslash and Jackson questionnaire which have been pretested and tested since 1981.The study uses SPSS software for analyzing the research questions. The statistical population consists of female obstetricians and gynecologists employed at the hospitals in Tehran. 200 female physicians working at the hospitals in Tehran are randomly selected. Two questionnaires are used in this study, one is Maslash and Jackson, Job Burnout Questionnaire (1981) and the other is Panize Couple Burnout (1996). Job Burnout Questionnaire comprises of 22 questions and evaluates emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and loss of personal accomplishment within the framework of professional activities. Marriage Burnout Questionnaire includes 21 questions that covered the three subjects of emotional exhaustion, mental fatigue, and physical tiredness. Data analysis is based on descriptive and presumption statistics. The findings of this research demonstrate that female physicians are suffering from extreme tension and job burnout. The outcome of this study has revealed that there is an inherent relationship between job burnout and couple burnout. Consequently, the results of this research express the point that female physicians go through high tension and Job Burnout. As a result, when Couple Burnout is higher then Job Burnout becomes higher too.