Job Satisfaction and Burnout in a Sport Setting: A Multiple Regression Analysis’

The ability of nonstress variables such as promotions, financial rewards, and challenge, to predict burnout (as suggested by Jayaratne & Chess, 1985) was tested in this study. The purpose of this study was to predict burnout of sport centre employees by using as predictors the different facets of job satisfaction. The sample consisted of 203 subjects, 24 to 65 years of age. A Job Description Index was used to measure job satisfaction and the Maslach Burnout Inventory was used to measure burnout. Findings suggest that the prediction ability of different facets of job satisfaction considered suitable for emotional exhaustion and for depersonalization. Particularly, work itself, supervision, and co-workers factors were the best predictors of emotional exhaustion (R2=.53, p<.0001) and supervision, pay, and work itself factors were the best predictors of depersonalization (R2=.43, p<.0001). These results support the findings of Jayaratne & Chess (1985) in the sport environment.