COMMUNITY LIFE, APOSTOLATE, ORGANIZATION AND PROFESSION AS PREDICTORS OF BURNOUT AMONG CATHOLIC PRIESTS IN ABUJA ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE

📄 Project Abstract

Personal experience on the increasing cases of burnout among Catholic Priests has necessitated the present study to investigate whether Community Life, Apostolate, Profession and Organization could be predictors of burnout among Catholic Priests in the Eclesiastical Province of Abuja. In pursuance of the aforementioned objective, five research questions and six null hypotheses guided the study. The design adopted was a correlational survey. Subjects for the study consisted of 526 priests drawn from 598 Priests in ecclesiastical province of Abuja, made up of Abuja, Gboko, Idah, Katsina-ala, Lafia,Lokojo, Makurdi and Otukpo dioceses. The instrument used for collecting data was a questionnaire named priest burnout questionnaire (PBQ). The instrument was validated by three experts in the field of guidance and counseling, Psychology and Measurement and Evaluation. Cronbach Alpha was used to determine the coefficient of internal consistency. The overall alpha coefficient was 0.95. The rese...