Positivity and job burnout in emergency personnel: examining linear and curvilinear relationship

The aim of this study was to examine whether the relationship between the ratio of job-related positive to negative emotions (positivity ratio) and job burnout is best described as linear or curvilinear. Participants were 89 police officers (12% women) and 86 firefighters. The positivity ratio was e...

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Main Authors:	Basińska Beata Aleksandra, Gruszczyńska Ewa
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Sciendo 2017-06-01
Series:	Polish Psychological Bulletin
Subjects:	job burnout emotion positivity curvilinear relationship emergency personnel
Online Access:	http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ppb.2017.48.issue-2/ppb-2017-0024/ppb-2017-0024.xml?format=INT

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spelling	doaj-art-22eec71f91d448f8a8b127d393c208662018-09-02T18:14:28ZengSciendoPolish Psychological Bulletin1641-78442017-06-0148221221910.1515/ppb-2017-0024ppb-2017-0024Positivity and job burnout in emergency personnel: examining linear and curvilinear relationshipBasińska Beata Aleksandra0Gruszczyńska Ewa1Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of Technolog, Gdansk, PolandFaculty of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, PolandThe aim of this study was to examine whether the relationship between the ratio of job-related positive to negative emotions (positivity ratio) and job burnout is best described as linear or curvilinear. Participants were 89 police officers (12% women) and 86 firefighters. The positivity ratio was evaluated using the Job-related Affective Wellbeing Scale (Van Katwyk, Fox, Spector, & Kelloway, 2000). Exhaustion and disengagement, two components of job burnout, were measured using the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (Demerouti, Mostert, & Bakker, 2010). The results of regression analysis revealed that curvilinear relationships between the positivity ratio and two components of job burnout appeared to better fit the data than linear relationships. The relationship between the positivity ratio and exhaustion was curvilinear with a curve point at around 2.1. A similar curvilinear relationship, but with a lower curve point, i.e., around 1.8, was observed for disengagement. It seems that beyond certain values there may be hidden costs of maintaining positive emotions at work. Also, the unequal curve points for subscales suggest that different dimensions of work-related functioning are variously prone to such costs.http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ppb.2017.48.issue-2/ppb-2017-0024/ppb-2017-0024.xml?format=INTjob burnoutemotionpositivitycurvilinear relationshipemergency personnel
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author_facet	Basińska Beata Aleksandra Gruszczyńska Ewa
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title	Positivity and job burnout in emergency personnel: examining linear and curvilinear relationship
title_short	Positivity and job burnout in emergency personnel: examining linear and curvilinear relationship
title_full	Positivity and job burnout in emergency personnel: examining linear and curvilinear relationship
title_fullStr	Positivity and job burnout in emergency personnel: examining linear and curvilinear relationship
title_full_unstemmed	Positivity and job burnout in emergency personnel: examining linear and curvilinear relationship
title_sort	positivity and job burnout in emergency personnel: examining linear and curvilinear relationship
publisher	Sciendo
series	Polish Psychological Bulletin
issn	1641-7844
publishDate	2017-06-01
description	The aim of this study was to examine whether the relationship between the ratio of job-related positive to negative emotions (positivity ratio) and job burnout is best described as linear or curvilinear. Participants were 89 police officers (12% women) and 86 firefighters. The positivity ratio was evaluated using the Job-related Affective Wellbeing Scale (Van Katwyk, Fox, Spector, & Kelloway, 2000). Exhaustion and disengagement, two components of job burnout, were measured using the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (Demerouti, Mostert, & Bakker, 2010). The results of regression analysis revealed that curvilinear relationships between the positivity ratio and two components of job burnout appeared to better fit the data than linear relationships. The relationship between the positivity ratio and exhaustion was curvilinear with a curve point at around 2.1. A similar curvilinear relationship, but with a lower curve point, i.e., around 1.8, was observed for disengagement. It seems that beyond certain values there may be hidden costs of maintaining positive emotions at work. Also, the unequal curve points for subscales suggest that different dimensions of work-related functioning are variously prone to such costs.
topic	job burnout emotion positivity curvilinear relationship emergency personnel
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Positivity and job burnout in emergency personnel: examining linear and curvilinear relationship

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