International Journal of Research Studies in Psychology
CollabWritive Special Issue
2025 Volume 11 Issue 1
Available Online: 16 November 2025
Author/s:
Almonical, Iris Lynn T.
Graduate School, Lyceum of the Philippines University-Batangas, Philippines (irjonalmonical@gmail.com)
Abstract:
The association between the effect of burnout and compassion fatigue in helping professions has been demonstrated in a limited but growing body of literature. However, previous studies revealed that resilience may have an important mitigating role in reducing the effect of burnout and compassion fatigue among mental health providers. Thus, present study seeks to examine relationship between burnout and compassion fatigue by examining the mediating role of resilience. The participants of the present study are 360 police frontliners deployed at Regional Medical and Dental Unit 10 and its aligned station health units. They were given a packet of scales assessing burnout, compassion fatigue and resilience through online platform. Findings of the study showed a significant positive relationship between burnout and compassion fatigue. On the other hand, as resilience mediates the relationship, it results to a low level of compassion fatigue. The present study contributes to the limited literature on burnout and compassion fatigue as mediated by resilience especially among medical frontliners in the PNP. Further, this will guide mental health professionals to provide psychological interventions that would lessen or prevent frontliners from experiencing such difficult psychological state.
Keywords: burnout, compassion fatigue, resilience, PNP medical frontliners
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrsp.2025.25002
Cite this article:
Almonical, I. L. T. (2025). Resilience, burnout, and compassion fatigue among Philippine National Police health service personnel. International Journal of Research Studies in Psychology, 11(1), 13-26. https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrsp.2025.25002