Burnout in psychiatric nurses is a phenomenon of great concern. We conducted an investigation
of 120 nurses working in the psychiatric, general medicine/rehabilitation, and critical
care/surgery wards to explore the correlations of level of burnout and defense mechanisms
with hopelessness. The nurses were administered the Maslach Burnout Inventory, Gleser
and Ihilevich's Defense Mechanisms Inventory, and Beck's Hopelessness Scale. The results
indicate that burnout and some of the defense mechanisms predicted the level of hopelessness—a
predictor of suicide risk.
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