Open AccessConflict Management Styles among Hospital Nurses In Relation To Their Burnout and Emotion Intelligence
Author(s) -
. Manikandan,
Sajeeth Kumar Gopalakrishnan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of indian psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2349-3429
pISSN - 2348-5396
DOI - 10.25215/0404.071
Subject(s) - emotional intelligence , respondent , burnout , psychology , conflict management , test (biology) , scale (ratio) , sample (material) , social psychology , clinical psychology , applied psychology , nursing , medicine , political science , sociology , social science , paleontology , physics , chemistry , chromatography , quantum mechanics , law , biology
This study examined the association of conflict management styles among hospital nurses in relation to their burnout and emotion intelligence. The sample was 136 nurses of government and private hospital at Puducherry. Convenience sampling method was adapted to select the sample for the present study. Measure of Thomas Kilman conflict mode instrument by Kenneth L. Thomas and Ralph H. Kilman, Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS) and the Emotional Intelligence Scale by Wong & Law to respondent. Data collected were analyzed using f-test and correlation. The results indicate that significant correlations exist between conflict management styles and burn out, and no correlation exist between EI and burnout, emotional intelligence and conflict management styles.