Effect of emotional climate in development of the prison professional work stress: A predictive study

The objective of the study is to establish the relationship and incidence of burnout syndrome and emotional climate in prison professionals, while determining the influence that the emotional climate and burnout factors have on each of the burnout variables according to two ways of understanding the prison. The sample is composed of 222 professionals from different Spanish prisons that are carrying out their activities under two different prison models: Therapeuticand Educational Unit (UTE) and traditional module (No UTE). Results show significant differences between the two models whith regard to both the emotional climate—a higher prevalence of positive emotional climate in UTE-and the characteristics of each of the burnout factors assessed in the model, as well as the role played in the emergence of the latter. This highlights the importance of their role in facilitating the social reintegration of prisoners