Burnout in Child Life Specialists: The Relation of Role Stress

The purpose of this research was to examine burnout in full-time child life specialists and to determine whether a relation existed between burnout and role stress (role ambiguity and role conflict) The relationship of individual and organizational variables to burnout were included as controls It was found that burnout exists for child life specialists, bur to a lesser degree than in other human service professionais Role ambiguity was a stronger predictor vanable of burnout than role conflict Additionally, the organizational variables contributed more to predicting burnout than the individual variables.