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those experiencing positive emotions is an important part of nursing pro- presence of professional stress in teaching staff at the medical faculty in foca 233
fessional life, and has a significant impact on the quality of services provided.
Positive emotions at work are associated with better health, a higher degree of
job satisfaction, responsible behaviour at work, higher work performance and
quality of work, greater resistance to stress and burnout, rarely changes of jobs,
better relations with other people, desirable behaviour and thoughts and lower
incidence of divorce (Golubic and Mustajbegović, 2011). The results of longitu-
dinal Next study from 11 European countries showed that in all countries there
is a significant degree of psychological exhaustion of nursing staff, particularly
in Slovakia and Germany where they registered the highest scores of negative
effects (Stourdeur et al., 2003).
The disease is undoubtedly one of the external factors that negatively af-
fect the quality of life of the individual. It can be said that the impact of disease
on quality of life is multidimensional. The disease not only affects in terms of
physical symptoms and thereby interferes with the function, but also there are
present indirect effects such as changes in work capacity, decrease in the quali-
ty health care, potential isolation, increasing dependence on others, bad habits
and so on (Hasselkorm, 2005).
Our research has shown that older people are more exposed to work re-
lated burnout and depersonalization; younger people have a higher quality of
mental and physical health, while those with higher values of years of service
have a greater value on the MBI scale. Strong negative high statistically signifi-
cant correlation was found between professional burnout and mental compo-
nents of quality of life. Higher levels of professional burnout have subjects who
have a significantly lower quality of mental health. Professional burnout syn-
drome is more than stress conditioned by professional activities; he indicates
a state of complete physical and emotional exhaustion caused by excessive and
futile efforts at work. Studies conducted in Finland and Sweden show that the
burnout syndrome is more expressed with women older than 50 years and that
work in none productive sectors. Job satisfaction is considered to be relatively
persistent phenomenon that involves affective orientation factors of the work-
ing environment. Job satisfaction is an important factor of success at work. Un-
satisfied people transferred their dissatisfaction with the team members and
to service users, and in the case of health care workers, to patients. With a de-
crease in job satisfaction it’s also reduced a sense of personal success (achieve-
ment). Dimension perception of reduced personal success involves reducing
the feelings of competence and achievement at work (Thiruchelvi and Supri-
ya, 2012).
Conclusions
In our study, more than half of respondents (83%) are exposed to stress at work,
while the professional burnout syndrome was detected in 42.6% of respond-
ents. Between professional stress and work experience and MBI result, there
fessional life, and has a significant impact on the quality of services provided.
Positive emotions at work are associated with better health, a higher degree of
job satisfaction, responsible behaviour at work, higher work performance and
quality of work, greater resistance to stress and burnout, rarely changes of jobs,
better relations with other people, desirable behaviour and thoughts and lower
incidence of divorce (Golubic and Mustajbegović, 2011). The results of longitu-
dinal Next study from 11 European countries showed that in all countries there
is a significant degree of psychological exhaustion of nursing staff, particularly
in Slovakia and Germany where they registered the highest scores of negative
effects (Stourdeur et al., 2003).
The disease is undoubtedly one of the external factors that negatively af-
fect the quality of life of the individual. It can be said that the impact of disease
on quality of life is multidimensional. The disease not only affects in terms of
physical symptoms and thereby interferes with the function, but also there are
present indirect effects such as changes in work capacity, decrease in the quali-
ty health care, potential isolation, increasing dependence on others, bad habits
and so on (Hasselkorm, 2005).
Our research has shown that older people are more exposed to work re-
lated burnout and depersonalization; younger people have a higher quality of
mental and physical health, while those with higher values of years of service
have a greater value on the MBI scale. Strong negative high statistically signifi-
cant correlation was found between professional burnout and mental compo-
nents of quality of life. Higher levels of professional burnout have subjects who
have a significantly lower quality of mental health. Professional burnout syn-
drome is more than stress conditioned by professional activities; he indicates
a state of complete physical and emotional exhaustion caused by excessive and
futile efforts at work. Studies conducted in Finland and Sweden show that the
burnout syndrome is more expressed with women older than 50 years and that
work in none productive sectors. Job satisfaction is considered to be relatively
persistent phenomenon that involves affective orientation factors of the work-
ing environment. Job satisfaction is an important factor of success at work. Un-
satisfied people transferred their dissatisfaction with the team members and
to service users, and in the case of health care workers, to patients. With a de-
crease in job satisfaction it’s also reduced a sense of personal success (achieve-
ment). Dimension perception of reduced personal success involves reducing
the feelings of competence and achievement at work (Thiruchelvi and Supri-
ya, 2012).
Conclusions
In our study, more than half of respondents (83%) are exposed to stress at work,
while the professional burnout syndrome was detected in 42.6% of respond-
ents. Between professional stress and work experience and MBI result, there
