The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychiatric nurses' burnout and distorted cognition. In this study, distorted cognition consisted of automatic thoughts and schema. After the reliability and validity of the scale were conformed, the correlation between psychiatric nurses' burnout and automatic thoughts and schema were examined by using questionnaires given to 107 mental hospital nurses. As a result, automatic thoughts such as negative labeling, magnification, catastrophizing, and all or nothing thinking were significantly correlatied to psychiatric nurses' burnout. This study may suggest effective application of cognitive therapy to deal with psychiatric nurses' burnout.
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