Thesis

esearch. However, since life satisfaction is showing an overall satisfaction with life and since
life satisfaction was shown to be lower in the Hungarian nurses and higher in the Swedish
nurses, it would have been interesting to find some kind of influence on burnout. Not much
research has been conducted in this area and it is clearly in need of more research. Since life
satisfaction is a well-known topic in international literature and a highly respected research
area connected to people’s lives, it is surprising not more research has connected burnout and
life satisfaction to each other. Future research could look into if higher life satisfaction would
contribute to lower burnout, or if lower life satisfaction would contribute to higher burnout.
To make it in connection to the topic of this study, comparisons could be made in relation to
nurses working at other wards than just emergency wards. Maybe then different results would
come out for different nursing wards and it would show that maybe nurses working at
emergency wards would generally not attain a significant relationship between burnout and
life satisfaction. However, it would possibly at least show potential trends between burnout
and different nursing wards in connection to life satisfaction. It was interesting that in this
study neither for the Hungarian nor for the Swedish nurses could there be found a relationship
between burnout and life satisfaction. This means that nationality did not influence the
relationship between burnout and life satisfaction. Thus, a possible idea for future research is
to compare two or more different countries to see if similar or opposite results would come
out, and if there nationality would have an impact on burnout and life satisfaction.
Looking at burnout and personality it can clearly be seen that it has been a well studied topic
over the years of burnout research. An original idea of this study was to include psychological
immunity as the personality structure. Previous research in the field of burnout and
psychological immunity has not been able to be located, and thus this study has contributed
with an area in need of much more research. When finding a topic which seems not to have
received much attention it is very exciting but at the same time it is somewhat discouraging as
well. It is exciting since the feeling of contributing with an original idea in an already
extensively researched topic, gives a feeling of eagerness and a desire to find out more in
connection to the topic but from as many different points of view as possible. The
discouraging feeling comes from the fact that previous research can not be used as a support
in order to either confirm or disconfirm a present study’s findings and this makes the present
study to feel more fragile. However, having shown that psychological immunity does have a
connection to burnout makes it an opportunity for more extensive research to be conducted in
this area in the future. Since previous research has found differences in psychological