El Síndrome de Burnout surge como una consecuencia del estrés laboral crónico. Se trata de una experiencia subjetiva interna que agrupa sentimientos, actitudes y comportamientos que tienen un carácter negativo para el sujeto dado que implica alteraciones, problemas y disfunciones psicofisiológicas con consecuencias nocivas para la persona y para la organización. Este Síndrome presenta tres dimensiones las cuales son agotamiento emocional, despersonalización y falta de realización personal en el trabajo que puede desarrollarse en aquellos sujetos cuyo objeto de trabajo son personas en cualquier tipo de actividad. El objetivo General del presente estudio fue determinar el Nivel de Síndrome de Burnout que presenta el Personal de Enfermería que trabaja en el Albergue Central Ignacia Rodolfo Vda. De Canevaro. Se considero a 71 profesionales y no profesionales de Enfermería del Albergue Central Ignacia Rodolfo Vda. De Canevaro, los cuales cumplieron con los criterios de inclusión y exclusión. / The burnout syndrome arises as a consequence of chronic job stress. This is a subjective experience that combines internal feelings, attitudes and behaviors which are detrimental to the subject because it involves changes, problems and malfunctions physical and physiology with harmful consequences for the individual and for the organization. This syndrome has three dimensions which are emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and lack of personal fulfillment at work that can develop in those subjects aimed working people are in any kind of activity. The general aim of the present study was to determine the level of Burnout Syndrome introducing the Nursing Staff working in the refuge Central Ignacia Rodolfo Vda. De Canevaro. We consider 71 professional and non-professional Nursing Refuge Central Ignacia Rodolfo Vda. From Canevaro, who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. / Tesis

Determina la asociación entre el síndrome de Burnout y las estrategias de afrontamiento en docentes de la Universidad Nacional de Cajamarca en el año 2013. La investigación es cuantitativa, descriptiva, asociativa. La muestra lo constituyeron 310 docentes de 6 facultades a quienes se aplicó dos cuestionarios: el inventario de Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) y la escala de estrategias de afrontamiento de Coping modificada. En cuanto a la condición laboral: el 59.4% (184) son nombrados, el 33.5% (104) son contratados y el 7.1% (22) son invitados. El 50% (155) de los docentes tienen grado de Maestría, el 36.1% (112) grado de bachiller y 13.9% (43) grado de Doctor. La edad fluctúa en un rango de 27 a 72 años; siendo el promedio 50.7 años, mientras que el tiempo de servicio tuvo una media de 16.6 años. Se concluye que existe una asociación entre síndrome de burnout y las estrategias de afrontamiento, así los docentes que usaron con mayor frecuencia las estrategias de afrontamiento tuvieron un nivel bajo de Burnout, por lo que se aprueba la hipótesis. El porcentaje de docente con Síndrome de Burnout fue del 5.6%. Se detectaron 16 profesores en esta condición. En riesgo intermedio y alto se hallaron 110 docentes. / Tesis

Completion times for doctoral psychology students are twice as long as those of other disciplines, and the attrition rate is over half of the matriculated students. Research indicates that (a) burnout plays an integral part in delayed completion and attrition for doctoral students and (b) personality and coping influence the development of burnout. In an effort to support prevention and intervention strategies, this study explored the gap in research regarding moderating effects of coping styles on the relationship between personality traits and burnout levels in online doctoral psychology students, as this population is growing at a significant rate and possesses additional risks for burnout due to physical isolation from faculty, academic peers, and support services. The NEO Five-Factor Inventory assessed the personality traits of Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness; the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations measured Task-, Emotion-, and Avoidant-Oriented coping styles; and the Maslach Burnout Inventory--Student Survey assessed the burnout dimensions of Exhaustion, Cynicism, and Efficacy. Results of multiple regression analysis indicated positive relationships between Neuroticism, Emotion-Oriented Coping, and Burnout, and negative relationships between Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness, Task-Oriented Coping, and Burnout. Avoidant-Oriented Coping was identified as a moderating variable on the predictive relationship between Conscientiousness and Professional Efficacy. This study contributes to social change by improving the understanding of burnout factors for online doctoral psychology students, which could enhance intervention strategies and improve timely program completion.

Among the profession of marriage and family therapy, the goal is to help those individuals, couples, and families that are struggling in life. While working with these clients there is the possibility that the therapists may become stressed themselves and experience burnout. The following is a descriptive study of 30 marriage and family therapists (MFTs) in the state of Utah. The demographic variables of cli nical experience, sex, case load, serting of practice, education level, and marital status were studied as to their relation to the experience of burnout. Statistically significant findings demonstrated that the variables of sex and caseload were the only two variables that showed a relationship to burnout. Also studied was how prevention techniques such as diet, exercise, time-off, peer consultation, supervision and personal therapy lessened the effects of burnout. Although interesting trends were ind icated, only diet was found to be statistically significant. The participants of this study al so gave detail ed suggestions as to how they work to prevent burnout in their own careers as well as advice to help beginning therapists to also lessen the effects of burnout.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Burnout is the emotional, mental, and physical strain associated with prolonged work stress (Maslach, Jackson, & Leiter, 1986). Although this is a problem in many professions, mental health providers are at a heightened risk of burnout (Salyers et al., 2015). One of the reasons for this increase in burnout may be the demands put on mental health workers to manage their own emotions while dealing with the intense emotional and mental health situations of their clients. Emotional labor, or the management of emotions at work, is conceptualized as two different emotion regulation strategies: surface acting and deep acting (Grandey, 2000). Surface acting, or faking emotions, has been associated with significant mental health and job-related problems, including burnout in populations such as call center employees and service workers. The psychological impact of deep acting, or internally attempting to change your emotions, is less clear, and may actually be associated with positive outcomes (Hülsheger & Schewe, 2011). However, little work has looked at the impact of emotional labor on mental health providers. The current study aims to examine how surface acting and deep acting are related to burnout over time in mental health providers. The proposed study is secondary analysis from a Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funded trial “The impact of burnout on patient-centered care: A comparative effectiveness trial in mental health (Salyers et al., 2018). 193 Clinicians reported burnout symptoms and frequency of employing emotional labor strategies at baseline, with 127 clinicians completing all four time-points: baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months. Data were analyzed using multiple regression analyses and cross-lagged panels to examine the impact of surface acting and deep acting on burnout over the course of 12 months. Surface acting was significantly associated with all three dimensions of burnout (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced personal accomplishment) cross-sectionally. Using cross-lagged panel models, depersonalization at baseline significantly predicted surface acting three and six months later. Surface acting and personal accomplishment had a bidirectional relationship: increased surface acting at baseline was associated with personal accomplishment at three months and decreased personal accomplishment at baseline and was associated with increased surface acting at three and six months. Deep acting moderated the relationship between surface acting and personal accomplishment at baseline, but not longitudinally. The current study is the first study that has examined the relationship between surface acting and burnout in community mental health professionals. While surface acting may not result in burnout three months later for dimensions other than personal accomplishment, two dimensions of burnout (depersonalization and decreased personal accomplishment) were associated with higher levels of surface acting three and six months later. This suggests that surface acting may have consequences for feelings of accomplishment at work, but more so, may be used a coping mechanism in reaction to some aspects of burnout.

Background & Rationale: Burnout syndrome (BOS) is a psychological state resulting from prolonged exposure to job stressors. It is commonly observed in occupations with human interaction. The most visible impact of burnout is a decrease in work performance and the overall quality of service, and within healthcare professionals, BOS correlates with reported medical errors. Academic healthcare workers are particularly predisposed to experience BOS given the high level of work-related stress that characterizes their jobs. There is a scarcity of studies investigating burnout in academic clinicians. Objective: The goal of this study is to identify the prevalence of burnout in academic clinicians in the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University and investigate potential demographic and workload variables that contribute to self-reported measures of burnout. Methods: A novel modification to the MBI (Maslach Burnout Inventory) scale was distributed to all academic clinicians at McMaster University through an internet-based survey. The MBI scale was modified to reflect three hypothesized sources of burnout for academic clinicians: interactions with students/trainees, interactions with patients and interactions with administration. The scale comprised of three dimensions of burnout: Emotional Exhaustion (EE), Depersonalization (DP) and Personal accomplishment (PA). Demographic and workload data were also collected. Results: Factor analysis and internal consistency showed that the modified MBI scale was associated with valid and reliable scores, respectively, within this population. Results showed that academic clinicians experienced high levels of burnout due to administration interactions relative to that attributed to patients and students. The prevalence of burnout for the EE subscale are: administration = 51.8%;, patients = 26.4%, students = 11.7%); for the DP subscale: administration = 44.8%, patients, = 24.5%, students, = 9.8%); and the PA subscale: administration =16.3%, patients = 33.4%, students =33.7%). Regression analyses suggested that young age, surgical specialty, low academic rank, academic main practice, female gender, numerous night shifts and living alone contribute to EE and DP subscales. Meanwhile, high number of patients under their care was shown to contribute to increasing PA. Conclusion: Burnout Syndrome is prevalent among academic clinicians at McMaster University. The major source of burnout was attributed to interactions with administration. Surgical specialties and young faculty staff members correlated with burnout. Further studies are needed to further characterize the nature of administrative interactions that contribute to burnout and to solidify other contributing variables. / Thesis / Master of Health Sciences (MSc) / Burnout syndrome (BOS), is a syndrome characterized by depleted energy resources, dealing with people as if they were impersonal objects and with decreased personal accomplishment. Physicians and educators are at risk of the syndrome. BOS has been linked to providing suboptimal care and medical errors. Our study investigated the prevalence of BOS in academic clinicians (physicians who work in a teaching hospitals) since they have two roles; physicians and educators. We also investigated any demographic variables related to BOS. We have created a novel modifications to Maslach Burnout Inventory ( one of the main scales used to measure BOS). We have established its validity and reliability. Our study showed that almost 50% of academic clinicians have burnout. Major source is due to their interaction with administration, followed by interaction with patients and lastly interaction with studens. Surgeons, females, young age, single, increased night on-call and low academic rank were predictors for burnout. A larger scale study is needed to pinpoint the kind if administrative interaction that is related to BOS. The ultimate goal is to make our teaching hospital work environment more friendly and transpiring to better patient care.

Burnout is a condition that results from chronic work-related stress, and it is associated with impairments in cognitive and emotion-related functions, such as impaired executive functions and emotion regulation. This thesis aimed to conduct a systematic review of the neural correlates of burnout. The thesis investigates the following research question: do the neural correlates of burnout involve the same brain regions and/or functions as those implicated in the cognitive functions affected by burnout? The systematic literature search resulted in seven studies which studied either the functional, structural, or electrophysiological correlates of burnout. The results showed that burnout involves functional and structural alterations in regions involved in various higher-order cognitive functions. Structural findings indicate alterations in brain regions involved with emotion processing, memory and attention (i.e., medial prefrontal cortex, caudate, amygdala). Electrophysiological findings indicate differences in alpha power in burnout individuals compared to controls, suggesting that alpha power is reduced when burnout's specific symptoms (i.e., exhaustion) increase. Evident are also findings on functional differences in working memory (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) and reduced functional connectivity between emotion processing areas (the amygdala and anterior cingulate cortex) and areas such as the motor cortex. The presented findings answer the research question. It can be concluded that the brain regions implicated in the cognitive functions affected by burnout resemble many of the regions affected in the neural correlates of burnout. Future studies should take into account the methodological issues of the existing studies.

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The present study investigated the directional relationship between practicing school counselors’ level of altruism to their degree of burnout. Specifically, this investigation tested the hypothesized directional relationship that practicing school counselors scoring at higher levels of altruism would have lower levels of burnout (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, personal accomplishment). In addition, the investigation examined the relationship between the practicing school counselors’ levels altruism and burnout and their reported demographic information (e.g., age, school counseling level, self-reported levels of wellness). A thorough review of the literature is presented with supporting empirical research for each construct (altruism and burnout). A descriptive, correlational research design (Frankel et al., 2012) was employed to investigate the research hypothesis and exploratory questions. The research hypothesis was analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). More specifically, multiple regression, path analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis (Ullman, 2007) were conducted. The exploratory research questions were examined using: descriptive statistics, Spearman’s rho correlations, multiple regressions, Kruskal-Wallis test and Mann Whitney U test (Pallant, 2010). The results are reviewed and compared to existing research in the field. Furthermore, limitations of the current study are explained, and recommendations for future research are provided. Finally, implications of the study regarding professional school counseling and counselor education are discussed. The overall sample for this study is 437 practicing school counselors (ASCA members, n = 344; non-ASCA members, n = 93). The results of the study support that school counselors with higher levels of altruism have lower levels of burnout. The findings of this study show two dimensions of altruistic motivation: (1) positive future expectations and (2) self-efficacy v contribute significantly to all dimensions of burnout (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment). Additionally, a significant relationship was found between altruism and burnout and self-reported wellness.