This study examined the effect of ego-resilience of workers at social welfare facilities on their burnout and tried to know the moderating effect of spiritual well-being on the effect of ego-resilience on burnout. The test subjects were 219 workers at 13 facilities (children welfare facility, disabled children welfare facility, mental nursery facility, facility for mentally and physically disabled people, senior nursery facility, senior special nursery facility, children adoption institution, and five facilities for the homeless by characteristics) under the general social welfare facility located in Chungcheongbuk-do Province.
Main findings of this study were as follows. First, the workers at the facilities who participated in this study did not get easily burnout as their ego-resilience and spiritual well-being get higher. Second, it was found that spiritual well-being has an moderating effect on the effect of ego-resilience on burnout, namely, as spiritual well-being is higher, the workers showed that their ego-resilience had the higher effect of alleviating burnout. The result of this study that spiritual well-being adjusts the effect of ego-resilience on burnout shows that spiritual well-being is the great source of preventing the serious crisis such as burnout on the site of social welfare implementation, and is a new area which can be considered in various situations necessary for coping with crises.
This study shows that spiritual well-being is an important strong source of enhancing and preventing the work efficiency of workers at facilities, and has its significance in presenting a necessity of an integral approach toward spirituality.