| Abstract [eng] |
Nurses and nursing assistants make up the majority of the workforce in the personal health care system and are considered as mostly affected by occupational burnout among the helping professionals. In order to be able not only to provide quality services, but also to prevent professional burnout, nurses and their assistants must acquire psychological resistance. The aim of this study was to assess the links between attachment and psychological resistance and the role of resistance in interpreting attachment relations to burnout. The study involved 140 nurses and 44 nursing assistants, work experience ranged from 1 to 50 years. The study investigated the level of ambivalent and avoiding attachment styles, psychological resistance and burnout syndrome (exhaustion and disengagement from work). The results showed that the resistance completely mediates the connection between ambivalent attachment and exhaustion and disengagement from work and partly mediates the link between avoiding attachment style and exhaustion and disengagement from work. The results of the study are important because they show that the development of resistance in a sample of nurses and their assistants and can have a positive impact on reducing their burnout risk, especially for those expressing more insecure attachment style. |
