Serving as a clergyperson is a highly variable profession and in recent decades, the role has evolved and expanded even further. Consequently, the demands have increased and with it the risk for stress-related ill-health and absenteeism. The aim of the current study was to evaluate, in a larger sample of Swedish clergy (N = 871), two possible antecedents of burnout, namely prosocialness and relational-interdependent self-construal. A further aim was to explore potential gender differences in the investigated associations. The direct and indirect relationships of prosocialness and relational-interdependent self-construal to two dimensions of burnout, exhaustion, and disengagement were investigated in a structural equation-modelling framework. The results showed that clergy who reported higher prosocialness experienced more stress in their work, in terms of both quantitative and emotional demands, which in turn was associated with higher levels of exhaustion and disengagement. But prosocialness was also found to be directly associated with lower levels of disengagement, as well as indirectly associated with higher levels of role clarity. However, no direct or indirect associations were found between relational-interdependent self-construal and any dimension of burnout. Regarding gender differences, female clergy reported higher levels of prosocialness and job demands, less role clarity, and in turn more exhaustion compared to male clergy. This indicated a more stressful situation for female clergy. Our study contributes new insights into the role that personality plays in different dimensions of burnout in clergy, as well as insights into an understanding of gender differences in burnout among clergy.

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瑞典神职人员职业倦怠的亲社会性、关系相互依赖的自我建构和性别之间的关联

担任神职人员是一个高度可变的职业，近几十年来，这一角色已经发展和扩大。因此，需求增加了，随之而来的是与压力相关的健康不良和旷工的风险。本研究的目的是在更大的瑞典神职人员样本（N = 871）中评估职业倦怠的两个可能前因，即亲社会性和关系-相互依赖的自我解释。另一个目的是探索被调查关联中潜在的性别差异。在结构方程建模框架中研究了亲社会性和关系相互依赖的自我解释与倦怠、疲惫和脱离两个维度的直接和间接关系。结果表明，亲社会性较高的神职人员在工作中承受的压力更大，就数量和情感需求而言，这反过来又与更高水平的疲惫和脱离接触有关。但也发现亲社会性与较低水平的脱离接触直接相关，并与较高水平的角色清晰度间接相关。然而，在关系-相互依赖的自我构想和任何维度的倦怠之间没有发现直接或间接的关联。关于性别差异，与男性神职人员相比，女性神职人员报告的亲社会性和工作要求更高，角色清晰度更低，进而更加疲惫。这表明女性神职人员的压力更大。我们的研究为人格在神职人员职业倦怠的不同方面所起的作用提供了新的见解，