The Effect of Workaholism Tendencies of Health Care Workers on Work-Family Life Conflict And Burnout Levels

Year 2021, Volume: 5 Issue: 8, 13 - 34, 28.08.2021

Meral Erdirencelebi , Ebru Ertürk

Abstract

Burnout is frequently observed in occupational groups in the service sector requiring one-to-one interaction with people, and particularly in health care workers where people are provided with assistance. The heavy workload caused by shifts, long working hours and overwork creates potential workaholic victims in the health sector. Workaholic workers are more likely to experience burnout and work-family conflict than other workers. In this study, it is aimed to determine the effect of workaholism tendencies of health workers on their burnout levels and work-family life conflict. According to the results of confirmatory factor analysis, it is seen that burnout syndrome scale has acceptable fit limit and other scales have excellent fit limit. These values indicate that all scales are statistically significant and valid. According to the results of Structural Equation Model analysis; the workaholism levels of health care workers affect 33% of their work-family life conflict levels and 41% of their burnout syndrome perceptions, and burnout syndrome perceptions affect 36.4% of their work-family life conflict levels. It was concluded that the workaholism levels of healthcare workers had a low effect on their work-family life conflict levels (21.5%) through the perception of burnout syndrome.

Keywords

Workaholism, work-family life conflict, burnout

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