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The Modeling the Mediating Role of Perceived Social Support in Relationship between Grit with Job Burnout in Satellite Employees of the Oil Industry Start-Up and Exploitation Company
Atefeh Esfandiari Moghadam1 , Mohammad Malekzadeh *2 , Shirali Kharamin3
1- PhD student, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Yasooj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yasooj, Iran.
2- Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Social Determinant of Health Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Yasuj, Iran , mzh541@yahoo.com
3- Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Social Determinant of Health Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Yasuj, Iran.
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The purpose of the present study was to investigate modeling the mediating role of perceived social support in relationship between grit with job burnout in satellite employees of the oil industry start-up and exploitation company. The present research is correlation. The statistical population of the satellite employees of the oil industry start-up and exploitation company (OICO) in the spring of 2023 was 4500 people. The sample size was selected based on Cochran formula and with convenient sampling of 500 people. Data collection tools included the Maslach burnout inventory (MBI) of Maslach and et al (1986), short grit scale (GRIT–S) of Duckworth and Quin (2009) and multidimensional perceived social support scale (MSPSS) of Zimet and et al (1988). Statistical analysis of data was performed using SPSS version 28 and AMOS software. The results showed that grit (p<0.05, β = -0.33) has a significant direct effect on job burnout. Finally, perceived social support (p<0.05, β = -.40) has a significant direct effect on job burnout and was able significant mediating role in the relationship between grit and job burnout. Also, proposed model had an acceptable fitness to the data (RMSEA=0/04 p<0/05) and analyses also revealed that %59 of variance of job burnout was explained. It can be concluded that due to the significant mediating role of perceived social support, it is possible to prevent burnout in satellite employees by using career empowerment interventions and grit traning.
Article number: 5
Keywords: Attachment Grit, Job Burnout, Perceived Social Support, Satellite
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Received: 2024/04/16 | Revised: 2025/03/15 | Accepted: 2025/06/6 | ePublished ahead of print: 2025/10/5 | Published: 2026/01/16
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