LOIOLA, Elainy    MARTINS, Maria do Carmo. Self-efficacy at work and burnout syndrome in nursing professionals. []. , 20, 3, pp.813-823. ISSN 1645-0086.  https://doi.org/10.15309/19psd200320.

This study verified the relationship of self-efficacy on burnout in nursing professionals working in Emergency Care Units (UPA'S). Self-efficacy at work represents the individual's perception of their own competencies in the execution of tasks. Burnout is understood as a specific workplace syndrome because of occupational stress chronification, with three dimensions: exhaustion, cynicism (depersonalization) and low professional achievement. Eighty-two nursing professionals participated in the survey, who answered the Work Self-Efficacy Scale (EAT), constructed and validated by Martins and Siqueira (2010), the Burnout Characterization Scale (ECB), adapted by Tamayo and Tróccoli (2009) from the Maslach and Jackson Maslach Inventory Burnout (1986) and a sociodemographic questionnaire. Data were submitted to exploratory and descriptive analysis, analysis of variance (ANOVA), Pearson correlation analysis and standard multiple linear regression. The results indicated that nursing professionals presented average levels of self-efficacy, as well as exhaustion components and low professional performance of burnout; and, in turn, low level of depersonalization. There was also a significant correlation between self-efficacy with two of the three burnout factors: emotional exhaustion and disappointment at work. It is concluded that the nursing professionals with the highest level of self-efficacy are the ones who least develop the burnout syndrome.

: Self-efficacy at work; burnout syndrome; organizational and work psychology.

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