Burnout: 35 years of research and practice

By Wilmar B. Schaufeli, Michael Leiter, C. Maslach. 2009

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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 psyc...

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

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Frontline employees’ passion and emotional exhaustion: The mediating role of emotional labor strategies (2019, background): “Since EE is the core feature of burnout (Schaufeli and Taris, 2005), people describing themselves or others as experiencing burnout most frequently mention the experience of EE (Schaufeli et al., 2009).”
Burnout Research (2017, methodology): “For burnout, there is no such common classification (Kaschka et al., 2011; Korczak et al., 2010; Maslach et al., 2001; Schaufeli et al., 2009).”
A systematic review including meta-analysis of work environment and burnout symptoms (2017, background): “tic criteria have been used to transform a continuous scale into a dichotomy that discriminates between “cases” and “non-cases” [9].”
Regulatory focus at work : the moderating role of regulatory focus in the job demands-resources model (2010, background): “As mentioned above, the first process is a process of exhaustion, in which high levels of demands in the work situation lead to a gradual reduction of mental and physical energy reserves, which may eventually result in fatigue, burnout, and health complaints ( Schaufeli et al. , 2009”
The person-oriented approach to burnout: A systematic review (2016, result): “This view of burnout as the erosion of engagement (Maslach & Leiter, 1997; Schaufeli et al., 2009) has gained support from variable-oriented studies: in two meta-analyses (see Cole, Walter, Bedeian, & OB́oyle, 2012; Crawford, LePine, & Rich, 2010), burnout and work engagement showed a negative…”
Burnout and Work Engagement: The JD–R Approach (2014, neutral): “The human-services workers used the term burnout and indicated that they experienced feelings of exhaustion, had developed negative attitudes toward their clients, and often felt that they lacked the professional competence needed to help their clients (Schaufeli et al. 2009b).”