Burnout and Social Support in Bafqs Miners Burnout and Social Support

Abstract

Objective Concerning the nature of mining miners a re more likely to suffer from different damages including burnout which may damage the organization besides its p hysical and mental damages to individuals Social support a nd job satisfaction on the other hand can decrease burnout in the workplace The present paper aims to identify the level of social support job satisfaction and burnout among miners Methods This investigation was a descriptive and analytical cross-sectional study 250 out of 700 miners working at Bafq sIron OreMine were selected randomly to participate in t his study To collect data Maslach Burnout Inventory MBI and Adolescent Family Caring Scale AFCS besides some items on demographic characteristics and job satisfaction were used The collected data were analyzed using SPSS Software version 16 operating descriptive analysis and p earson Correlation Test T-test and Regression analysis Findings The mean age of miners was 34 73 6 83 90 of them were married and native residents More than 70 of the subjects had mild emotional exhaustion and depersonalization however reduced sense of personal a ccomplishment was severe among more than 70 of workers There was a significant correlation between burnout level and social support and its three dimensions P 0 05