ABSTRACT
A sample of Australian psychiatric nurses completed a questionnaire which included operational measures of elements of Carver and Scheier’s self-control model of stress including the frequency dimension of the subscales of the Maslach Burnout Inventory — emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and diminished accomplishment. Other scales completed by participants included independent subscales contained in the Positive and Negative Affectivity Scale and the private and public self-focus and social anxiety subscales of the Self-Consciousness Scale (Revised). Two interpretable canonical variates labelled emotional exhaustion–depersonalization and diminished accomplishment were derived from analysis of the date. Each element of the self-control model showed an expected contribution to an emotional exhaustion–depersonalization canonical variate, whereas reported levels of only positive affectivity and private self-focus made a notable contribution to explanation of variance on the diminished accomplishment canonical variate.
