Relationship between work adjustment and job burnout among graduate village officials

Objective To explore work adjustment and job burnout status in graduate village officials and to examine associoction of work adjustment with job burnout for making preventive measures.Methods A total of 550 graduate village officials were selected with stratified random sampling from Rudong of Jiangsu province,Xiasha of Zhejiang province,Ezhou of Hubei province,Tonghua of Jilin province,Yibin of Sichuan province,and Huizhou of Guangdong province for a questionnaire survey.Results The detection rate of exhaustion,reduced personal accomplishment,and cynicism was 3.45%,44.18%,and 29.09%,respectively.The job burnout score of village head assistant,village secretary assistant,and other posts was 36.96±12.20,37.80±12.36,and 38.81±13.51,respectively,lower than the score of the village officials working in township government on secondment(46.07±14.80,P<0.05).The job burnout score of the graduate village officials with under 6 months of service and 13-24 months of service was 34.16±11.29 and 37.09±12.88,lower than the score of those with above 36 months of service(41.73±14.39,P<0.05).The work adjustment score of the graduate village officials with under 6 months of service and 13-24 months of service was 217.27±22.96 and 213.96±24.90,higher than the score of those with 25—36 months of service(206.34±22.50,P<0.01).The scores of exhaustion,reduced personal accomplishment,and cynicism showed significant inverse correlation with each dimension of work adjustment (P<0.01).Conclusion The level of work adjustment has an effect on job burnout among graduate village officials.