Investigating the Relationship between Sleep Quality and Career Adaptability with Occupational Burnout among Employees
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Background and Objective: Disruption of the sleep cycle normal functioning of body system with a significant effect on various dimensions of human lives such as career-related variables. The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between sleep quality and career adaptability with occupational burnout and to compare them among em-ployees with low and normal sleep quality.
Materials and Methods: In terms of objective and nature, this study was an applied-descriptive, correlational, and causal-comparative study. The statistical population of the study included a private company in Tehran Province, Iran, where 286 people were selected using simple random sampling as the sample and after completing career adaptability, occupational burnout, and sleep quality scales, the relationship between variables was investigated.
Results: The findings indicated a significant negative relationship between sleep quality and occupational burnout and its dimensions. Moreover, a significant positive relationship was found between career adaptability of people with nor-mal sleep and low sleep (P < 0.0500) and people with normal sleep quality showed lower occupational burnout and higher career adaptability. In comparing female and male groups regarding career adaptability and occupational burn-out, the results showed that a significant difference exists between them in emotional exhaustion; females obtained larg-er mean values compared to men and no significant difference was observed among the components.
Conclusion: Given the findings of this study, it can be concluded that sleep, in addition to decreasing occupational burnout, leads to higher career adaptability among employees.
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| Sleep quality Psychological burn-out Occupational burnout Vocational guidance | ||
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