Burnout Trends

Occupational and Environmental …, 2003

Frontiers in Psychology

Fierce debates surround the conceptualization and measurement of job-related distress in occupational health science. The use of burnout as an index of job-related distress, though commonplace, has increasingly been called into question. In this paper, we first highlight foundational problems that undermine the burnout construct and its legacy measure, the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). Next, we report on advances in research on job-related distress that depart from the use of the burnout construct. Tracing the genesis of the burnout construct, we observe that (a) burnout’s definition was preestablished rather than derived from a rigorous research process and (b) the MBI has little in the way of a theoretical or empirical foundation. Historical analysis suggests that the burnout construct was cobbled together from unchallenged personal impressions and anecdotal evidence before getting reified by the MBI. This state of affairs may account for many of the disconcerting problems enco...

Career Development International, 2009

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to focus on the career of the burnout concept itself, rather than reviewing research findings on burnout. Design/methodology/approach -The paper presents an overview of the concept of burnout. Findings -The roots of the burnout concept seem to be embedded within broad social, economic, and cultural developments that took place in the last quarter of the past century and signify the rapid and profound transformation from an industrial society into a service economy. This social transformation goes along with psychological pressures that may translate into burnout. After the turn of the century, burnout is increasingly considered as an erosion of a positive psychological state. Although burnout seems to be a global phenomenon, the meaning of the concept differs between countries. For instance, in some countries burnout is used as a medical diagnosis, whereas in other countries it is a non-medical, socially accepted label that carries a minimum stigma in terms of a psychiatric diagnosis. Originality/value -The paper documents that the exact meaning of the concept of burnout varies with its context and the intentions of those using the term.

Journal of Organizational Behavior, 1981

A scale designed to assess various aspects of the burnout syndrome was administered to a wide range of human services professionals. Three subscales emerged from the data analysis: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment. Various psychometric analyses showed that the scale has both high reliability and validity as a measure of burnout.

1993

Academic Medicine, 2011

Can PCP (Kelly, 1955) help understand burn out phenomena? We think that considering and exploring the personal meaning dimensions involved in the burn out process is more useful than trying to explain it in term of stress response. We see what the person does, thinks and feels as elaborative choices he or she makes to cope with the invalidation of his/her relational constructions. We will focus in particular on the psychological sufferance nurses and physicians can feel in Mental Health Public Services and in Oncological Services.

European Journal of …, 2003

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2005

Lived experiences of the time preceding burnout Aim. This paper reports a study to illuminate the complex interaction between person and their life world during the burnout development period. Background. Burnout is a construct describing the psychological state resulting from ineffective strategies for coping with enduring stress in both client and nonclient work. Role conflict and role ambiguity, or long-term stress and frustration caused by strain in daily life, promote or exacerbate burnout, indicating that the person's entire life world is involved. There is still a lack of description of lived experiences of the time preceding manifest burnout. Method. Data were collected from interviews with eight people suffering from burnout and analysed using a phenomenological method. Findings. The essential meaning of the phenomenon of burnout is understood as being trapped with stimulating challenges as a self-nourishing drive on one side and with responsibilities and demands on the other. This essence can be illuminated by its eight constituents: inner incentive, feeling responsible, threatened self-image, cutting off, bodily manifestations, psychological manifestations, fatigue and reaching the bottom line. Conclusions. The lived experiences of the time preceding manifest burnout are an ambiguous struggle. Cutting off is understood as a mean to shelter the threatened self-image in a state of vulnerability and weakened strength. Accordingly, a better understanding of how to reach behind the defence of 'cutting off' and thus help to open up for consolation and self-acceptance is an essential skill for nurses, health care professionals and others encountering the burnout sufferers. Furthermore this study illuminates early signs of burnout and an important issue is how to strengthen the individuals' ability to shelter their need for recovery and restitution.

2021

A complete literature review on Burnout Syndrome is talked about in the current article.Burnout condition is characterized as a slow psychosocial measure by which individuals lose interest in theirwork, an awareness of others' expectations. It can even arrive at misery and, in the end, demise. It includessensations of intense fatigue, depersonalization, diminished individual satisfaction at work. Key findingscalled attention to nine components causing burnout condition and Burnout Syndrome. Also pointed out oneof the most efficient explored and refreshed psychosocial disorders. Discussion and suggestions for futureexamination comprise the current work.