Spirituality and worker well-being: Examining the relationship between spirituality, job burnout, and work engagement

Workers in the social work, mental health, and human service fields are increasingly encouraged to use spirituality and religion in their interventions with clients. This emphasis on the importance of spirituality and religion on client wellness could be beneficial equally when used by social workers and other human service providers to promote their own well-being. Using a cross-sectional availability sample of 133 human service workers, we examine the relationship between spirituality, job burnout, and worker engagement. In the present study, spirituality was statistically related to dedication, one of the three dimensions of worker engagement but not job burnout.