A comparative analysis on job burnout of soldiers stationed in different areas of Xinjiang

MENG Xinzhen; DING Kui; LIU Xiaoming

doi:10.13919/j.issn.2095-6274.2015.07.004

Abstract：Objective To investigate job burnout difference of officers and soldiers stationed in different areas of XinJiang, which provides the theoretical basis to maintain their psychosomatic health.Methods Evaluation was carried out with the Job Burnout Scale for Military Personnel in 1452 officers and soldiers chosen by random cluster sampling method from army stationed in XinJiang. Results Each factor score of the job burnout of the officers and soldiers stationed in the city was significantly lower than that of in southern and Northern soldiers (P﹤0.01). The self evaluation factor score of southern officers and soldiers was significantly higher than that of northern officers and soldiers (P﹤0.05), interpersonal factor score was significantly lower than the northern officers and soldiers (P﹤0.01). The result of multiple stepwise regression analysis showed that the length of military service and only one-child were both influencing factors for the occupation burnout of officers and soldiers stationed in different areas of Xinjiang, and the both influencing factors took up 19.0% in the total of variation factors.Conclusions Degree of job burnout was lower in soldiers stationed in city. Length of military service and only child were important factors affecting job burnout of soldiers in different regions in Xinjiang.