The Effects of Mindfulness on Job Success: The Mediating Role of Job Adaptability and Burnout

Abstract

Mindfulness, as a multi-dimensional construct, plays a phenomenal role in employees’ career and organizations’ future. The present study intends to investigate the impact of mindfulness on career success, job adaptability and job burnout among the employees of public banks of Bushehr City. A sample size of 242 answered the questionnaires and structural equations modeling was applied. Results show that mindfulness has a positive significant impact on the variables of job adaptability and career success; whereas, it has a negative significant impact on job burnout. Moreover, job adaptability positively affects career success but it has a negative significant impact on job burnout. Career success, too, has a negatively significant impact on job burnout of the banks’ employees.

Keywords

• mindfulness
• job success
• job adaptability
• burnout
• public banks.