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: Received: 18 May 2022 / Approved: 19 May 2022 / Online: 19 May 2022 (08:01:56 CEST)
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Bielinis, E.; Janeczko, E.; Omelan, A.A.; Furgała-Selezniow, G. No Signs of Excessive Burnout in Public Forest Officers Working in the Temperate Region During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Preprints2022, 2022050253. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202205.0253.v1
Bielinis, E.; Janeczko, E.; Omelan, A.A.; Furgała-Selezniow, G. No Signs of Excessive Burnout in Public Forest Officers Working in the Temperate Region During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Preprints 2022, 2022050253. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202205.0253.v1
Bielinis, E.; Janeczko, E.; Omelan, A.A.; Furgała-Selezniow, G. No Signs of Excessive Burnout in Public Forest Officers Working in the Temperate Region During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Preprints2022, 2022050253. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202205.0253.v1
APA Style
Bielinis, E., Janeczko, E., Omelan, A.A., & Furgała-Selezniow, G. (2022). No Signs of Excessive Burnout in Public Forest Officers Working in the Temperate Region During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202205.0253.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Bielinis, E., Aneta Anna Omelan and Grażyna Furgała-Selezniow. 2022 "No Signs of Excessive Burnout in Public Forest Officers Working in the Temperate Region During the Covid-19 Pandemic" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202205.0253.v1
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic has influenced the style of work of many people. However, it remains a question to what extent it has influenced the work of outdoor workers like forestry workers. Therefore, the objective of this study was to assess the level of professional burnout among forest-ry workers, as a lack of burnout symptoms is a dimension of well-being at work. The Oldenburg Burnout Inventory was administered to 42 respondents. Both subscales of the inventory were reliable: Cronbach’s alpha was 0.806 for disengagement and 0.865 for exhaustion. The mean number of overtime hours was 10.13 hours per month. The mean disengagement score of 2.24 was lower than the reference value of 2.25, but the mean exhaustion score of 2.33 was high-er than the reference value of 2.1. Age correlated significantly with stage of work, as did exhaustion with stage of work, and over-time hours with disengagement. The average forestry officer had no symptoms of disengagement and slight symptoms of exhaustion. These results suggest that being in the forest can help prevent burnout. Overtime work and a heavy workload appear to threaten forestry workers’ well-being, as they can cause exhaustion and lower commitment.
Keywords
burnout; foresters; OLBI; Sars-Cov-2; work
Subject
Social Sciences, Sociology
Copyright:
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