A Study on the burnout of firefighters

소방대원의 소진(Burnout)에 관한 연구

  • Published : 2000.12.31

Abstract

The study was conducted to investigate the burnout of firefighters. The subjects were 223 firefighters in C-Do. The instruments used for this study were a survey of general characteristics(10 items), burnout(23 items). Analysis of data was done by use of mean percentage, t-test, ANOVA, stepwise multiple regression with SAS program. The results of this study are as follows; 1. Burnout according to general characteristics were showed significant difference in job-aptitude(F=6.30, P<.001), health status(F=5.92, P<.001), education(t=6.09, P<.01), working place rotation(t=2.59, P<.01), call number/week(F=3.28, P<.01), job-burden(F=4.45, P<.01), paper-job burden(F=3.87, P<.05). 2. Category score of burnout were showed the higher score in the lowed personal accomplishment(3.29). 3. Category score of burnout according to aptitude were showed difference each other. 4. Predicting factor of burnout were paper-job burden, health status, job-burden(20.99%).

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