Burnout level of Seventh-Day Adventist ministers' wives and its correlates

• Main Author: Dy, Joyce Mondejar
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1988
• Subjects: Burn out (Psychology); Spouses of clergy > Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/1293
• Institution: De La Salle University

To determine the extent of the burnout syndrome among Seventh-day Adventist ministers' wives, as well as the type of religious orientation, work status, and personality traits which would significantly relate to the respondents' burnout level, the Maslach Burnout Inventory, as well as Feagin's Intrinsicness/Extrinsicness Religious Orientation Scale and the Panukat ng Ugali at Pagkatao questionnaires were administered to 60 ministers' wives (92 percent) residing in the Central Luzon Mission area. Statistical treatment applied was the Pearson r correlational analysis set at the .05 infinity level of significance. Results indicate that the majority of respondents (93.47 percent) have low scores in frequency and intensity dimensions of the emotional exhaustion and depersonalization subscales, but have high frequency and intensity scores in the personal accomplishment subscales of the MBI. This in essence means that ministers' wives have a low burnout profile and are capable of accomplishing at greater levels. Results further indicate that the majority of respondents (93.47 percent) possess and intrinsic type of religiousness and an employed work status (71.74 percent) which were found not to significantly contribute to the low burnout level of the respondents. As to the personality traits, ministers' wives were found to possess 10 out of 24 personality subscales of the PUP. These traits are as follows: (a) pagkamalikhain, (b) pagkamapagtimpi, (c) pagkaresponsable, (d) pagkasaalwahan, (e) pagkamaalalahanin, (f) pagkamatulungin, (g) pagkamagalang, (h) pagkapalaaway, (i) pagkapikon, and (j) pagkamapunahin. Under the section on Mga Inaaming Ugali, only the trait pagkarelihiyoso was significantly admitted by the respondents. Under the subscala ng Pagkakaila or Denial subscale, it was found that responses of the wives were slightly not dependable by .025. Statistical treatment were made of all 41 variables of the PUP with the MBI scores of the respondents. In conclusion, the study showed that personality variables, in general, do not contribute to burnout with the exception of a few related to it.