The Predictive Ability of Community Feeling and Defense Mechanisms Upon Psychological Exhaustion Syndrome Among Mental Health Professionals

Abstract

The study aimed to know the predictive ability of societal feeling and defense mechanisms of mental exhaustion syndrome among workers in the field of mental health, the study sample consisted of (399) individuals. 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 medium level, and finally came isolation against society, and at a low level. The results also showed that the percentage of mental health workers who have mature mechanisms (36.1%), and that A percentage (46.6%) had neurotic mechanics, and (17.3%) had immature mechanisms. The results also showed that (immature mechanics vs. mature mechanics) explained (3.8%) of the variance that explains psychological exhaustion, then (isolation against society vs. pro-social orientation) contributed to an explanatory relative effect of (1.1%).