Institute of Education, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
Stress Health. 2013 Apr;29(2):113-6. doi: 10.1002/smi.2434. Epub 2012 Jun 4.
Pressures generated by increasing secularization and decreasing vocations to ordained ministry are resulting across denominations in a growing number of clergy serving more than one congregation. This study assesses the hypothesis that clergy serving more than one congregation are more susceptible to burnout. Data were provided by a sample of 735 clergy serving in The Presbyterian Church (USA) who completed the Francis burnout inventory together with the abbreviated Eysenck personality questionnaire revised. Among these clergy, 82% served one congregation, 13% served two congregations, and 5% served three or more congregations. After controlling for individual differences in age and personality, the data demonstrated that clergy serving yoked congregations experienced no statistically significant differences in susceptibility to burnout, either in terms of levels of emotional exhaustion or in terms of levels of satisfaction in ministry, compared with colleagues serving just one congregation.
在世俗化不断增强和圣职人员减少的压力下，不同教派中越来越多的神职人员开始为一个以上的教堂服务。这项研究评估了这样一个假设，即服务于一个以上教堂的神职人员更容易出现倦怠。数据来自美国长老会的 735 名神职人员样本，他们完成了弗朗西斯倦怠量表和简化的艾森克人格问卷修订版。在这些神职人员中，82%的人服务于一个教堂，13%的人服务于两个教堂，5%的人服务于三个或更多的教堂。在控制了年龄和个性差异后，数据表明，与只服务一个教堂的同事相比，服务于联合教堂的神职人员在情绪枯竭或事工满意度方面，并没有表现出在倦怠方面的统计学显著差异。
