Caritas et veritas 2021, 11(2):195-203 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2021.044

Research of Spirituality and Burnout Syndrome in Hospice of St Jan Nepomuk Neumann

Helena Machulová¹, Pavel Kilbergr², Alena Poláčková³

¹ Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Teologická fakulta, Oddělení celoživotního vzdělávání, Kněžská 8, 370 01 České Budějovice

² Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Teologická fakulta, Katedra filosofie a religionistiky, Kněžská 8, 370 01 České Budějovice

³ Biskupství českobudějovické, Diecézní centrum pro rodinu, Psychologické poradenství a péče o rodiny po ztrátě dítěte, Široká 27, 370 01 České Budějovice

The presented text deals with a probe examining the relationship between spirituality and burnout syndrome and its applicability in the employees of Hospice of St Jan Nepomuk Neumann. It is based on the fact that spirituality is mentioned as one of the possible elements to prevent the development of burnout syndrome, as stated and at least partially confirmed by many foreign studies. Standardised questionnaires were used for the probe in the study of the connection between spirituality (SWBS – The Spiritual Well-Being Scale) and burnout syndrome (SMBM – Shirom-Melamed Burnout Measure). In this probe, we tested the two (respectively three) following research questions. What effect will the extent of spiritual well-being (SWBS) have on the extend of burnout (SMBM)? How will religious well-being (RWB) and spiritual well-being (SWBS) correlate and how will the effect of existential well-being (EWB) correlate in the study sample? The resulting data extracted from the examined sample document a slight negative correlation between religious well-being and burnout and a stronger influence of religious well-being on spiritual well-being.

Keywords: spirituality, spiritual well-being, burnout syndrome, hospice care, dying

Accepted: February 14, 2022; Published: March 1, 2022  Show citation