The Predictive Ability of Social Interest and Community Feeling, Upon Psychological Exhaustion Syndrome Among Mental Health Professionals

Abstract

The study aimed to determine the predictive ability of social interest and community feeling for psychological burnout syndrome among workers in the field of mental health in Jordan. The study sample consisted of (399) workers in the field of mental health. To achieve the objectives of the study, the Maslach & Jackson scale was used. , 1981, to measure psychological exhaustion and a measure of community feeling, and a measure of social interest was developed. The results showed that the level of psychological exhaustion as a whole was low, and the level of pro-social orientation was high, followed by anti-social dominance at a moderate level, and finally came anti-social isolation, at a low level, as The results showed that the level of social interest was very high, and (pro-social orientation versus anti-social dominance) contributed with a relative effect explaining (1.4%). Social interest also contributed in second place with a relative effect of 7.1% of the total variance. Then ( Pro-social orientation versus anti-social isolation) had a relative effect, explaining an amount of (1.3%) of the total explained variance of the predictive model.