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Communal orientation may not buffer burnout.

D Truchot1, L Keirsebilck, S Meyer

  • 1Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale, E.H.E.S.S., Paris, France. didier.truchot@wanadoo.fr

Psychological Reports
|July 6, 2000
PubMed
Summary

Communal orientation buffers burnout in medical professionals. However, in other helping professions, it may decrease personal accomplishment, especially when relationships feel inequitable.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Occupational Health
  • Social Science

Background:

  • Communal orientation, a desire to help others, can buffer burnout in medical professionals.
  • This protective effect is noted particularly when the helping relationship is perceived as inequitable by the helper.
  • Previous research focused on medical personnel, a group with a specific helping model.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effect of communal orientation on burnout and personal accomplishment in professional helpers.
  • To test if communal orientation has a different impact in a compensatory helping model compared to a medical model.
  • To examine the role of perceived inequity in the helping relationship.

Main Methods:

  • The study involved professional helpers operating under a compensatory model.
  • Participants' communal orientation, burnout, and personal accomplishment were assessed.
  • Perceived inequity in the helping relationship was a key factor considered.

Main Results:

  • Communal orientation did not buffer burnout in this professional group.
  • Instead, communal orientation was found to reduce personal accomplishment.
  • These effects were observed when helpers perceived the relationship as inequitable.

Conclusions:

  • The buffering effect of communal orientation on burnout is context-dependent.
  • In compensatory helping models, communal orientation may negatively impact personal accomplishment.
  • Perceived inequity significantly moderates the relationship between communal orientation and well-being outcomes.

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