job burnout for psychologists and psychiatrists of city of isfahan city of and its interrelation with individual and professional factors

abstract aim and background: job burnout is considered as the main factor of decreasing efficiency, losing manpower and making physical and mental complication's specially in human service professions, this survey intends to study job burnout for psychologists and psychiatrists of city of isfahan and it is interrelation with individual and professional factors. methods and materials: this survey is of correlation type, that has been done on 133, psychologists and psychiatrists, (98 psychologists and 35 psychiatrists) applying an maslach burnout inventory questionnaire (mbi) (α=0.87) and demography questionnaire. the samples were selected simple randomly, by accident and invited to cooperate individually. data has been reported into two levels of descriptive and inferential (frequency, percentage, mean, deviation, t test, coefficient of correlation, analysis of variance). findings: the results of this survey proved weak when the mean of job burnout scores in the study sample compared with the source score. in aspects of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, burnout was weak and in the aspect of personal efficiency it suggested medium. moreover there is a meaningful relation between job burnout with the variable of interest in clinical work, attitude to the effectiveness of clinical work, and the type of job (p<0.05). conclusions: the results indicated that there is notable job burnout, even though it's weak in the sample group. this has been more serious among the employees of the state centers so it's necessary to identify the intensifier and reducer factors for this phenomenon in the personal, organizational and environmental aspects.