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has to a great extent shown that demographic variables do have a significant effect on<br />

burnout. Thus, younger age, having no children, lower educational level, less years of<br />

working as a nurse, and more hours worked per week have been shown to have an influence<br />

on burnout in previous researches, but could not be shown to influence burnout in this study.<br />

A possible explanation for this can be that nationality and psychological immunity had such<br />

strong protective effects on Hungarian and Swedish nurses’ burnout that it excluded other<br />

variables in this study.<br />

6. CONCLUSION<br />

6.1. IMPLICATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS<br />

Having spent a great deal of time looking at burnout in nurses in different countries in<br />

general, and Swedish and Hungarian emergency nurses in particular, in connection to work<br />

related stress, life satisfaction, personality, social support, and demographic variables, it has<br />

been an interesting journey. At the end of this journey it is now time to reflect upon the<br />

implications of this study. The area of burnout in nurses is a well researched and well<br />

established area. It has an extensive scientific background all around the world and from that<br />

point of view it was a challenge to come up with an area within the burnout area which would<br />

still shed new light on the phenomenon of burnout in nurses, the fact that this study looked at<br />

emergency nurses in two different countries and in relation to five different areas made this<br />

study a very specific one and hopefully also an interesting one, which highlighted areas in a<br />

range from not being researched to extensively researched. This wide spectrum has hopefully<br />

made this study stand out and has also hopefully contributed with filling in some gaps in<br />

already existing research. Hopefully it has also contributed with new ideas worth while for<br />

future research to investigate further.<br />

The fact that this study looked at burnout in Hungarian and Swedish emergency nurses, with<br />

two very different historical backgrounds, made it interesting to see whether this would turn<br />

out as something positive or negative. Since the countries have different historical<br />

backgrounds it was maybe no surprise that the levels of burnout came out the way they did.<br />

However, could the results have come out differently? Maybe one should not make the<br />

assumption that the results were obvious due to unfortunate historical background because

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