Relationship between burnout and yutori of mind in new nurses

New nurses’ experience of burnout leads to turnover; therefore, reducing burnout has been attracting attention. It can be presumed that the yutori of mind may reduce burnout. In addition, emotion regulation strategies including reappraisal and distraction are assumed to mediate relationships between the yutori of mind and burnout. The present study aims to examine these unclear possibilities. A total of 73 new Japanese nurses completed questionnaires, which consisted of questions about the scales of the yutori of mind, reappraisal, distraction, and burnout. As a result of the path analysis, yutori of mind was shown to have a negative correlation with burnout, especially emotion exhaustion and depersonalization. However, there was no significant correlation between yutori of mind and personal accomplishment factors in burnout. Moreover, the mediating effects of reappraisal and distraction on the relationship between yutori of mind and burnout were not observed. Although the process underlying the relationship between yutori of mind and burnout remains unclear, yutori of mind may reduce burnout in new nurses

Neuronal noise to identity confusion - association between long-range temporal correlations in intrinsic EEG activity and subjective sense of identity

The long-range temporal correlation (LRTC) in resting-state intrinsic brain activity is known to be associated with temporal behavioral patterns, including decision making based on internal criteria such as self-knowledge. However, the association between the neuronal LRTC and the subjective sense of identity remains to be explored; in other words, whether our subjective sense of consistent self across time relates to the temporal consistency of neural activity. The present study examined the relationship between the LRTC of resting-state scalp electroencephalography (EEG) and a subjective sense of identity measured by the Erikson Psychosocial Stage Inventory (EPSI). Consistent with our prediction based on previous studies of neuronal-behavioral relationships, the frontocentral alpha LRTC correlated negatively with identity confusion. Moreover, from the descriptive analyses, centroparietal beta LRTC showed negative correlations with identity confusion, and frontal theta LRTC showed positive relationships with identity synthesis. These results suggest that more temporal consistency (reversely, less random noise) in intrinsic brain activity is associated with less confused and better-synthesized identity. Our data provide further evidence that the LRTC of intrinsic brain activity might serve as a noise suppression mechanism at the psychological level