Prosocial Personality as a Predictor of Burnout in Spanish Social Workers
Autor
Ariza Toledano, Leonor Belén
Ruiz Olivares, Rosario
Editor
Oxford University PressFecha
2022Materia
BurnoutProsociality
Risk and protective factors
Social work practitioners
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The aim of this study is to establish the link between burnout and prosocial personality
and discover how prosocial personality influences burnout. A single-group ex post
facto prospective descriptive design questionnaire was created incorporating sociodemographic
data, the Maslach Burnout Inventory and Penner’s Prosocial Personality
Battery. The study involved 442 members of professional social workers’ associations
in Spain, comprising 91.1 per cent women and 8.9 per cent men, with ages ranging
from twenty-four to sixty-three years. The results showed that social responsibility is
significantly lower and personal distress is higher in emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation,
whilst the personal accomplishment variable correlates positively
with the positive variables of prosociality and negatively with personal distress.
Social responsibility, perspective-taking, self-reported altruism, prosociality factor 1
(other-oriented empathy) and prosociality factor 2 (helpfulness) were found to be
significantly higher amongst professionals without burnout, while personal distress
predominates in professionals with burnout. The study also found that personal distress
and mutual concerns moral reasoning are risk factors for burnout, whilst
perspective-taking is a protective factor. It was concluded that prosociality acts as a
protective factor against burnout—a novel idea of great importance when