The Effects of Job Related Emotions, Job Stress, and Burnout on the Intention to Leave: A Study on Nurses

In today’s business life, the effect of positive or negative feelings of employees about their jobs on people’s business and even private lives has become increasingly important. This study aims to examine the impact of job-related emotions, work stress, and burnout on their intention to leave of nurses, which is one of the prominent professions in the Covid-19 epidemic that has recently affected the whole world and faced with many risks under a heavy workload. Within the framework of the hypotheses developed based on a model, the data obtained from a sample of 263 nurses working in the Karaman State Hospital in our province were evaluated with multiple regression analysis, and it was found that stress, burnout, and job-related emotions somehow predicted the meaning of the intention to leave (R2=0.18), and all variables together explain 26% (R2=O.26). Work-related negative emotional well-being was found to have positive and significant relationships with the variables of stress (r = 0.523, p <0.01), intention to leave work (r = 0.404, p <0.01), and burnout (r = 0.604, p <0.01). Similarly, positive feelings related to work were negatively correlated with the variables of intention to leave (r = -0.332, p <0.01), stress (r = -0.270, p <0.01) and burnout (r = -0.197, p <0.01) was found to be.