The oncology setting may give rise to significant feelings of helplessness among oncologists via patients' inevitable deaths or suffering. The current study examines whether and how oncologists' sense of control (locus of control; LOC) influences their compassion fatigue and satisfaction. Seventy-three oncologists completed the following questionnaires: the Professional Quality of Life scale; Levenson's Internal, Powerful Others, and Chance scale; the Guilt Inventory, State Guilt subscale; and the Learned Helplessness scale. Oncologists reported high levels of secondary traumatic stress and burnout and moderate levels of compassion satisfaction. A positive association between oncologists' external LOC and compassion fatigue, and a negative association between oncologists' internal LOC and compassion fatigue, were found. Helplessness, but not guilt, had a mediating role in these associations. Internal LOC was also positively associated with compassion satisfaction. The current study highlights oncologists as a population at risk of experiencing compassion fatigue and emphasizes oncologists' locus of control as a predisposition that plays a role in the development of this phenomenon. Additionally, the cognitive as well as the emotional aspects of control were found to be important factors associated with compassion fatigue.
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