Work engagement and psychological flexibility as predictors of Filipino mental health professionals' compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, and burnout

• Main Authors: Gutib, Jericho Joshua, San Juan, Elga Elmina, Soriaga, Joshua Adriel, Vergara, Lance Victor
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2016
• Subjects: Job satisfaction; Burn out (Psychology); Job stress; Stress (Psychology); Motivation (Psychology)
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/8078
• Institution: De La Salle University

People reach out to mental health professionals for psychological need, support, and recovery but mental health professionals themselves experience psychological distress and need help. Mental health professionals may experience occupational hazards if they were not able to respond to the situation at hand effectively and may lead to compassion fatigue and burnout but if they were able to act at the moment, then they may experience positive feeling towards their work such as compassion satisfaction. Studies suggest that work engagement can predict better work performance on mental health professionals so as psychological flexibility that enables individuals to adjust to current situations. This research aims to investigate the relationship of work engagement and psychological flexibility on compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, and burnout among 71 (Male=27, female=44) Filipino mental health care professionals currently working and /or having their training within Metro Manila. Results showed that only work engagement did not elicit a significant correlation between compassion fatigue and burnout. On the other hand, work engagement and psychological flexibility were significant predictors among all variables. This implies that Filipino mental health professionals have the capacity to discern current situations effectively that their work engagement do not necessarily affect their job. Moreover, psychological flexibility can be a trait to prevent characteristics of compassion fatigue and burnout.