The Effect Of Self-compassion On Burnout In Clinical Nurses

Burnout is a reaction syndrome caused by individuals' long-term exposure to work stress.It is characterized by emotional exhaustion,depersonalization,and lack of job satisfaction or decreased work efficiency.Burnout poses challenges to employees' subjective well-being and job performance at work.Self-compassion is an attitude of caring for oneself when one is faced with suffering or misfortune.Self-compassion not only contributes to individuals' positive psychological functions(such as positive affect and subjective well-being),but also helps to protect individuals from psychological distress.Recent studies have found that trait self-compassion is negatively associated with job stress or burnout among human health service workers.However,few studies have explored how self-compassion affects job burnout and the effect of induced selfcompassion on reducing negative emotional experience nor on protecting mental health.Clinical nurse is a typical emotional-intensive occupation type,whose work involves a lot of interpersonal communication and emotional input,and is a high-risk group susceptible to job burnout.Therefore,clinical nurses were selected to participate in this study.Based on the perspective of emotion regulation,the first study used questionnaire survey to explore the influence of clinical nurses' self-compassion on job burnout and its mediation mechanism.The study hypothesized that self-compassion affected job burnout of nurses through the use of emotional regulation strategies and emotional experience.A total of 287 clinical nurses participated in the online questionnaire survey(97.2% females).A questionnaire packet was used to measure trait self-compassion,experiential avoidance,negative affect,job burnout and demographic information.The results of the first study were consistent with the hypotheses:(1)Selfcompassion negatively predicted job burnout;(2)Self-compassion negatively predicted experiential avoidance and negative affective state;(3)Experiential avoidance has a significant mediating effect on the relationship between trait self-compassion and job burnout,and the mediation effect is 22.28%;Negative affective state plays a significant mediating effect on the relationship between trait self-compassion and job burnout,and the mediation effect size is 13.97%;(4)Experiential avoidance and negative affective state shows a significant serial mediating effect on the relationship between trait selfcompassion and job burnout,and the serial mediation effect is 21.86%.In the second study,we combined the questionnaire with an experiment to explore the emotional regulation effect of induced self-compassion on the negative affective state in the laboratory setting among clinical nurses.Although a number of studies have found that self-compassion is associated with lower negative emotional experiences,few studies have compared self-compassion with other commonly used emotional regulation strategies.Therefore,this study aims to compare the difference in the effect of induced self-compassion and acceptance(an adaptive emotion regulation strategy).173 clinical nurses(94.8% females)were randomly assigned into the control group,the acceptance group or the self-compassion group.They were separately asked to passively watching,watching after practicing acceptance,or watching after practicing self-compassion.Then,a set of negative image stimuli was presented.Each picture was presented for 9 seconds and participants were required to rate the emotional valence and arousal of the pictures while watching the negative images.The second research showed that:(1)Compared with the control group,the physiological arousal was lower in the self-compassion group and the acceptance group when viewing negative images;(2)Compared with the acceptance group,the selfcompassion group also experienced less negative emotion when viewing negative pictures.Conclusion: high since Benjamin tendency of clinical nurses to use empirical avoidance and less experience negative emotions,thereby reducing the risk of suffering from job burnout,Benjamin since may of job burnout has protective function to the physical and mental health of vulnerable groups Induced from Benjamin can effectively reduce the individual in the face of negative stimulation of negative emotional experience,and from the tribe of Benjamin strategy and acceptance strategy has similar arousal regulation effect,simple and efficient induced from Benjamin training can effectively buffer the negative stimuli bring bad resultsThese findings suggest that dispositional self-compassion may protective clinical nurses from job burnout through decreased use of experiential avoidance and reduced adverse emotional experience.Dispositional self-compassion may have a protective effect on the physical and mental health of burnout susceptible groups.The induced self-compassion strategy can effectively reduce the negative emotional experience caused by negative stimuli.Induced self-compassion can effectively reduce individuals' negative emotional experience when faced with negative stimuli,and self-compassion have similar emotional arousal regulation effect as acceptance strategy.The simple and efficient induced self-compassion training can effectively buffer the negative effects of negative stimuli.