Nurses’ job burnout: The role of emotional intelligence, spiritual intelligence and hardiness

Nursing is considered as a high level of risk profession and burnout. Past research on nurses has identified a significant negative relation of nurses’ job burnout with their hardiness and emotional intelligence. The present research aimed to explore the job burnouts among nurses, and to examine the relationship between nurses’ burnout with predictor variables such as emotional intelligence, spiritual intelligence and hardiness. The sample consisted of 180 female nurses. Participants completed the Maslach burnout inventory, emotional intelligence scale-41, self–report measure of spiritual intelligence, and personal views survey. The results of correlation coefficients indicated that emotional intelligence, spiritual intelligence and hardiness have a negative relationships with nurses’ job burnout and  step by step regression analysis of showed that hardiness (component of commitment), spiritual intelligence (component of personal meaning production), and emotional intelligence (component of regulation of emotions) are the significant predictors  for nurses’ job burnout. Finding Further indicated that three components or commitment, personal meaning production and regulation of emotion can predict 39% changes in nurses’ job burnout. It can be concluded that three main psychological factors predict the job burnout among nurses