Burnout and coping among parish-based clergy

Mental Health, Religion & Culture

Crea

2015

This paper explores the connection between psychological type and burnout among a sample of 155 Catholic priests serving in Italy. Burnout was assessed by the Francis Burnout Inventory (FBI) that draws on Bradburn's classic model of balanced affect to conceptualise poor work-related psychological health (burnout) in terms of high levels of emotional exhaustion in ministry in the absence of good levels of satisfaction in ministry. Psychological type was assessed by the Francis Psychological Type Scales (FPTS) that draw on the development of Jung's classic model that distinguishes between two orientations (extraversion and introversion), two perceiving functions (sensing and intuition), two judging functions (thinking and feeling), and two attitudes (judging and perceiving). The data demonstrated that higher levels of burnout were experienced by introverts than by extraverts.These findings are consistent with the view that the clerical profession has been shaped by inter-personal expectations that are more readily met by extraverts.

Section: Conceptualisation and Measurement Of Work-related Psychologimentioning

confidence: 99%

Work-related psychological health and psychological type: a study among Catholic priests in Italy

Mental Health, Religion & Culture

Crea

2015

“…These studies included work reported by Warner and Carter (1984), Strümpfer and Bands (1996), Rodgerson and Piedmont (1998), Stanton-Rich and Iso-Ahola (1998), Virginia (1998), Evers and Tomic (2003), Golden, Piedmont, Ciarrocchi, and Rodgerson (2004), Raj and Dean (2005), Miner (2007a, 2007b and Doolittle (2007).…”

Section: Between Two Worlds: Understanding and Managing Clergy Stressmentioning

confidence: 99%

Work-Related Psychological Health among Clergy Serving in the Presbyterian Church (USA): Testing the Idea of Balanced Affect

Review of Religious Research

Village

Robbins

et al. 2011

Drawing on the classic model of balanced affect, the Francis Burnout Inventory (FBI) conceptulises good work-related psychological health among clergy in terms of negative affect being balanced by positive affect. In a random sample of 744 clergy (539 clergymen and 205 clergywomen) serving in The Presbyterian Church (USA), negative affect was assessed by the Scale of Emotional Exhaustion in Ministry (SEEM) and positive affect was assessed by the Satisfaction in Ministry Scale (SIMS). At the same time, burnout was independently assessed using self-report measures of overall health and burnout, and by the extraversion and neuroticism scales of Eysenck's dimensional model of personality. These independent measures of burnout indicated higher burnout among those who were emotionally exhausted and lower burnout among those who had high levels of satisfaction with their ministry. Crucially for proving the idea of balanced affect, there was a significant interaction between the effects of SEEM and SIMS scores on these independent measures of burnout, showing that the mitigating effects of positive affect on burnout increased with increasing levels of negative affect.

“…The Maslach Burnout Inventory has been used in its original form among clergy by a number of studies, including Warner and Carter (1984), Strümpfer and Bands (1996), Rodgerson and Piedmont (1998), Stanon-Rich and Iso-Ahola (1998), Virginia (1998), Evers and Tomic (2003), Golden, Piedmont, Ciarrocchi, and Rodgerson (2004), Raj and Dean (2005), Miner (2007aMiner ( , 2007b, and Doolittle (2007). When Rutledge and Francis (2004) tested the Maslach Burnout Inventory among clergy in the United Kindgom, they discovered that some of the items failed to reflect the situation, culture and vocabulary that clergy recognised to describe their situation.…”

Section: Maslach Burnout Inventorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Work-Related Psychological Health and Psychological Type Among Lead Elders Within the Newfrontiers Network of Churches in the United Kingdom

Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community

Gubb²,

Robbins

2012

Building on a series of recent studies concerned with assessing work-related psychological health and psychological type among various groups of church leaders, Maybe add one more sentence to the abstract that comments on the relationships between psychological type and burnout being weak. Because you mention the type sca in the first sentence of the abstract, as a reader I expect to hear the findings.