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Emotional Abuse, Emotional Regulation and Job Burnout Among Nurses of Federal Medical Centre, Makurdi

Samuel Terzungwe Anhange (Ph.D), Alexander William, Abraham Tersugh Kwaghgbah, Adekola Tolulope Oluwatosin, Frank Oiwona Agbara, Martins Orga, Caleb Terkuma Akombo, Scholastica Nyamhena, Paul Nyikwa

Abstract

This study investigated the influence of emotional abuse and emotional regulation on job burnout among nurses of Federal Medical Centre, Makurdi. The cross-sectional survey design was employed where 117 Nurses of consisting of 11 (9.4%) males and 106 (90.6%) females. Their ages ranged from 27-51 years with a mean age of 38.59years (SD=6.78). Accidental sampling was used to draw the sample for the study. Three instruments were used for data collection; Emotional Abuse Scale, Emotion Regulation Questionnaire and the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey. Three hypotheses were tested using Simple, Linear Regression, Multiple Linear Regression and Standard Multiple Regression. Findings indicated that there was a significant influence of emotional abuse on burnout among nurses. Secondly, there was a significant influence of emotion regulation on burnout among nurses. Lastly, there was a significant joint influence of emotional abuse and emotion regulation on burnout among nurses of Federal Medical Centre Makurdi. It was recommended that, the management of Federal Medical Centre Makurdi should ensure that training programmes are designed to educate nurses on the proper regulation of their emotions; as this would reduce their predisposition to job burnout.

Keywords

Emotional abuseemotion regulationburnoutnursesFederal Medical Centre

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