The Influencing Factors and Mitigation Strategies of Seafarer Job Burnout: A Study based on SEM and fsQCA

Jingyuan Li; Fangwei Zhang; Minghua Sun; Huan Ni; Taiyang Li

doi:10.54691/rw420n52

Authors

Jingyuan Li
Fangwei Zhang
Minghua Sun
Huan Ni
Taiyang Li

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54691/rw420n52

Keywords:

Job Burnout; Influencing Factors; Structural Equation Modeling; Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis.

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the causes of seafarer burnout and the complex combination of causes that inspire burnout, and to provide a theoretical basis for mitigating seafarer burnout. Methods: This study used questionnaire method to survey 451 seafarer members. Then, the questionnaire data were statistically analyzed using SPSS26.0 software, and the job burnout influencing factors were explored by structural equation modeling using AMOS24.0. Third, a qualitative comparative analysis is used to explore the combination of factors that stimulate job burnout. Methods: The results of structural equation modeling showed that seafarer members' subjective well-being, general self-efficacy, and psychological resilience genera are all significantly negatively related to job burnout. Job demands are significantly negatively related to job burnout, job control negatively affects the decreased personal accomplishment dimension, and social support negatively affects the depersonalization and emotional exhaustion dimensions. Then, this study conducted a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis based on these six burnout influencing factors, and the results show that there are no necessary conditions leading to job burnout among the six antecedent variables and that there existed four combinations of conditions with high explanatory power for the formation of burnou. Finally, based on the findings of the study to alleviate seafarer burnout to provide management recommendations.

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