Sociodemographic and occupational risk factors associated with the development of different burnout types: the cross-sectional University of Zaragoza study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Three different burnout types have been described: The "frenetic" type describes involved and ambitious subjects who sacrifice their health and personal lives for their jobs; the "underchallenged" type describes indifferent and bored workers who fail to find personal development in their jobs, and the "worn-out" in type describes neglectful subjects who feel they have little control over results and whose efforts go unacknowledged. The study aimed to describe the possible associations between burnout types and general sociodemographic and occupational characteristics.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was carried out on a multi-occupational sample of randomly selected university employees (n = 409). The presence of burnout types was assessed by means of the "Burnout

SUBMITTER: Montero-Marin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3074532 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature