Effects of Group Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy on the Nurses' Job Stress, Burnout, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment and Turnover Intention
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PURPOSE: This study aimed to develop a Group REBT program with group counseling for nurses and test the effect of group counseling on their job stress, burnout, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and turnover intention. METHODS: A quasi-experimental study with nonequivalent control group design was employed to identify the effect of the Group REBT program on nurses' job stress, burnout, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and turnover intention. Data were collected from 47 participants from two hospitals. The data from the experimental (n=23) and control (n=24) groups were analyzed from January 5 to April 3, 2015. The Group REBT program was conducted eight tmes in all, once a week, with each session lasting 180 minutes. The effect of experimental intervention was measured for each group using a series of structured questionnaires at each of the phases: Pre-intervention, post-intervention (immediately after intervention), and post-intervention (four weeks after intervention). Following this, the significance of the changes in the scores was tested. RESULTS: =.012). CONCLUSION: The Group REBT program was shown to be an effective intervention that could reduce nurses' job stress and burnout and increase job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Therefore, the Group REBT program can be adopted by nursing organizations to strategically decrease nurses' turnover intention.
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Irrational beliefs may amplify workers' vulnerability to burnout in the workplace.
“Irrational beliefs may amplify workers’ vulnerability to burnout in the workplace[12,14,16-19].”
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The Introduction (section 1, page not provided) says nurses with stronger irrational beliefs experience more job stress, and that stress contributes to burnout. It also describes changing irrational beliefs as a way to reduce stress and burnout. This supports the proposed link for nurses, but the paper does not establish it for workers generally. (LLM, conf=0.82)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe REBT framework contributes independently to the understanding of burnout symptoms and distress.
“Other REBT practitioners demonstrated that the REBT framework contributes independently to the understanding of burnout symptoms and distress[9,18,42].”
From Clinical benefits of rational-emotive stress management therapy for job burnout and dysfunctional distress of special education teachers (2020) · cites this paper as [18]
The Results and Conclusion report that group REBT reduced nurses’ burnout and job stress compared with a control group. They do not establish that the REBT framework independently explains burnout symptoms or distress; the study tested an intervention, not the framework’s independent explanatory contribution. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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- Authors
- Kim, H.-L., & Yoon, S.-H.
- Affiliations
- Youngnam Foreign Language College (KR)
- Inje University (KR)
- ORCID
- Yoon, Sook-Hee
- Venue
- Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
- Publisher
- Korean Society of Nursing Science
- Published
- 2018
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 432
- ISSN
- 2005-3673 (ISSN-L)
- 2093-758X
- OpenAlex
- W2891092556
- Cited by
- 27
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 4
- FWCI
- 4.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- ko
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing (publishedVersion, cc-by-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychological Treatments and Assessments
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Leadership and Management › Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues
- Keywords
- nurses, occupational stress, burnout, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, turnover intention, group counseling, nurse retention
- MeSH terms
- Occupational Stress, Adult, Behavior Therapy, Burnout, Professional, Female, Humans, Job Satisfaction, Male, Nursing Staff, Hospital, Personnel Turnover, Organizational Culture, Program Evaluation, Program Development, Young Adult
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