Research On Correlation Of Psychological Counselor's Job Burnout With Self-efficacy And Social Support And Professional Identity

Burnout has been defined as a specific kind of negative emotion that take a toll on psychological health and individuals' work efficiency. Because of the job particularity of psychological counsellor' nature, burnout not only negatively impact on their work efficiency, but also associated with the effectiveness of psychological intervention, in turn, effect visitor's well-being. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship among burnout, self-efficacy, social support and Speciality Self-identity. Suggestions for deeper understanding of the role of burnout in improving counselling psychologists well-being are offered.200 psychological counsellors working within educational system, medical sector, judiciary-notary-public security departments and other social psychological counselling organizations in Hunan, completed the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey, General Self-Efficacy Scale, Speciality Identity scale, and Perceived Social Support Scale. A total of 178 returned the questionnaires, yielding a response rate of 89% for data collection,153 were effective, yielding an effective rate of 86% for data analysis.One-way ANOVAs and T test were conducted to examine if the means for job burnout, self-efficacy, social support and speciality identity differed between groups. Correlation analysis were conducted to investigate the relationship among four variables; In addition, Regression analysis and Bootstrapping Analysis was used to test the role of potential mediators in explaining the job burnout. The conclusions are as follows:1) The scores of burnout of participants range from 1 to 3.75 which were not significantly higher or lower than other jobs. (M=2.15, SD=0.63)2) Self-efficacy is negatively associated with burnout (r=-0.462, P?0.01), higher levels of self-efficacy play a pivotal role in mitigating burnout.3) Participants who scored lower on social support showed higher levels of burnout. (r=-0.361, P?0.01) Also, Participants' social support were at moderate level.4) Speciality identity were negatively correlated with job burnout. (r=-0.447, P<0.01)5) Self-efficacy, Social support and Speciality identity predicted the levels of counselling psychologists' burnout.6) Social support and Speciality identity partly mediated the relationship between Self-efficacy and job burnout.