Evaluation of the effect of lifestyle on job exhaustion among the nurses in governmental hospitals in Northern Khorasan with emphasis on intermediate role of psychological capital

Background and Objectives: Obviously, given that dissatisfaction and turnover, including cases in which the modern world have further enhanced and job burnout is one of the effected factors, so, conducting some studies for determining the relationship between lifestyle and job burnout is important. This study examined the effect of lifestyle on job burn out among the nurses in governmental hospitals in Northern Khorasan with emphasis on intermediate role of psychological capital.

Materials and Methods: This study was a cross sectional analytical survey. Research community included the nurses in governmental hospitals in Northern Korasan in 2013. 420 nurses were randomly selected as research sample. For collecting data, Maslach job burn out, Luthans psychological capital and the researcher made lifestyle questionnaires which have acceptable reliability and validity were used. The data were analyzed by LISREL and SPSS software, structural equation modeling and two –stage least squares methods.

Results: Firstly, this research presented the model which is a strong theoretical model to predict the effect of lifestyle on job burn out between the nurses with emphasis on the intermediate role of psychological capital. Secondly, all of the direct and indirect relationships between the variables in the model was significant.

Conclusion: This research showed the nurses job burn out is influenced by their lifestyle. On the other hand, since the nurses job burn out can affect the quality of service and efficient use of organizational resources, so, it is necessary for hospital managers pay more attention to factors which affect to avoid job burn out.