The Relationship Between Spiritual Well-Being and Burnout in Collegiate Athletic Trainers
Leslie W Oglesby1, Andrew R Gallucci2, Christopher Wynveen2
1School of Health Professions, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg.
Context:
Spiritual well-being is the expression of one's spirituality as measured in the dimensions of existential and religious well-being. The Smith Cognitive Affective Model of Athletic Burnout suggests that personality factors such as spiritual well-being and the use of religious coping methods may affect burnout as well as its causes and outcomes. This has not been examined in collegiate athletic trainers (ATs).
Objective:
To investigate the relationship between spiritual well-being and burnout in collegiate ATs.
Design:
Cross-sectional study.
Setting:
Web-based survey.
Patients Or Other Participants:
A total of 783 certified ATs employed full time in the collegiate setting participated. Part-time employees (eg, graduate assistants, interns) were excluded.
Main Outcome Measure(S):
A 100-item online questionnaire was created for this study. It used items from previously developed scales, including the Spiritual Well-Being Scale, the Brief RCOPE, the Maslach Burnout Inventory, and substance-use questions from the Monitoring the Future study. Participants were able to complete the survey in approximately 10-15 minutes. Multiple regression analyses were used to analyze survey data. We mapped all independent (existential well-being, religious well-being, positive and negative religious coping) and dependent variables (situational variables, Maslach Burnout Inventory burnout subscales, substance use, and intention to leave) onto the Smith Cognitive-Affective Model of Athletic Burnout to determine which variables altered burnout levels, substance use, and intention to leave. Tests of mediation or moderation were conducted when appropriate.
Results:
Existential well-being was a significant positive predictor of social support and a significant negative predictor of work-family conflict, decreased sense of personal accomplishment, emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, intention to leave the profession, and binge drinking. Existential well-being also served as a mediator or moderator in several components of the model.
Conclusions:
Existential well-being was a protective factor against burnout as well as some of the causes and effects of burnout in collegiate ATs.
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