relationship between resilience and burnout of nurses

introduction and purpose: the potential of resilience is regarded as a determiner for preventing and decreasing burnout resulted form occupational stresses.among the occupations, nursing is the most stressful ones .the optimistic psychology view tries to increase the capability of a person instead of solving the problem and this is the main idea behind resilience. this study has investigated the relationship between resilience and occupational burnout of nurses.methods: the research method is descriptive – correlation. the sample of the study was 426 nurses from governmental section of kermanshah. in this study maslash burnout (mbi) and conroe – davidson resilience scale (cd – risc) were used. the data was analyzed by spss. finding: the results showed that there is a relationship between resilience general bourn out and emotional boring and depersonalization (personality metamorphosis) index at (p<0/001). moreover, there is a relationship between resilience and personal efficiency feeling at (p<0/01). no relationship was found between resilience demography features. conclusion: since resilience is one of predictors of decreasing burn out in nursing, it is suggested to include teaching resilience courses in the syllabus of nurses.