Employee Burnout: A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship Between Age or Years of Experience

By Ernest W. Brewer, L. Shapard. 2004

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Burnout and Personality (2007, background): “A meta-analysis of studies dealing with burnout and age or years of experience revealed a small negative correlation between age of the employee and emotional exhaustion (Brewer & Shapard, 2004).”
PUBLICATION BIAS: A CASE STUDY OF FOUR TEST VENDORS (2006, unknown): “…N method, also known as the “file drawer problem” method has been used in industrial and organizational psychology (Bertua, Anderson, & Salgado, 2005; Brewer & Shapard, 2004; Jenkins, Mitra, Gupta, & Shaw, 1998; Mitra, Jenkins, & Gupta, 1992; Parker et al., 2003; Rhoades & Eisenberger, 2002; Roth,…”
Examining the relationship between burnout and age among Anglican clergy in England and Wales (2007, background): “…correlation between age and burnout—that clergy suffering from burnout at a younger age may already have left the ministry, or that older clergy may have learned how better to pace their work—presuppose that the variable ‘‘age’’ in fact means ‘‘years in the ministry’’ (cf. Brewer & Shapard, 2004).”
Developmental HRM, employee well-being and performance: the moderating role of developing leadership (2019, methodology): “Gender, functional level, functional and organizational tenure were used because they affect burnout, AOC and/or employee task performance (e.g., Ramsay et al., 2000; Meyer et al., 2002; Brewer and Shapard, 2004).”
Burnout and Turnover Intention Among Social Workers: Effects of Role Stress, Job Autonomy and Social Support (2008, background): “For example, Brewer and Shapard's (2004) meta-analytic review of burnout studies reports age as a negative correlate of worker burnout.”
Understanding Burnout in Child and Youth Care Workers (2010, background): “Previous literature that has found significantly higher levels of burnout in younger employees was partially confirmed ( Brewer and Shapard 2004; Cordes and Dougherty 1993; Schwartz et al. 2007).”
Professional Supervision: A Workforce Retention Strategy for Social Work? (2012, background): “They are also expected to work more quickly (Brewer & Shapard, 2004 ; Halbesleben, 2008 ), and often with little formal support, supervision, or guidance (Dollard et al, 2001 ).”
Work engagement and burnout: testing the robustness of the Job Demands-Resources model (2009, result): “For example, numerous studies considered age as a factor associated with job burnout but yielded inconclusive results (for a review see Brewer & Shapard, 2004).”
Job burnout: The contribution of emotional stability and emotional self‐efficacy beliefs (2018, unknown): “…for the effect of gender and age, given that they are significantly associated with emotional stability (Costa, Terracciano, & McCrae, 2001; Specht, Egloff, & Schmukle, 2011), emotional self-efficacy (Alessandri et al., 2015), and burnout (Brewer & Shapard, 2004; Purvanova & Muros, 2010).”
Work-Related Communication Technology Use Outside of Regular Work Hours and Work Life Conflict (2014, background): “However, Brewer and Shapard (2004) argued that overall life stress and employee age may also influence burnout and intention to leave an organization.”