A meta-analysis of burnout with job demands, resources, and attitudes
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Job demands, resources, attitudes, and burnout: a meta-analysis
Burnout is an important issue in the psychological literature. Research has demonstrated that burnout can result in anxiety, depression, drops in self-esteem, substance abuse, decreased performance, and increased health problems (Maslach et al., 2001, Melamed et al., 2006, Taris, 2008). It is also seen as contagious and has a negative spillover effect on people's home lives (Maslach, 2003, Maslach et al., 2001). Burnout is a psychological phenomenon of prolonged exhaustion and disinterest,
Method
I used meta-analyses to examine the hypothesized relations of emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced personal accomplishment with job demands, resources and attitudes. Below is a discussion of the literature search strategy and the analytic methods used to conduct the meta-analysis.
Results
The relation between employee perceptions of job demands, resources, and attitudes with the burnout subscales were ran using meta-analyses. The results of these analyses are reported in Table 1 and are discussed in the following sections.
Discussion
The current meta-analysis sought to explore burnout through meta-analytic technique. The study demonstrated that resources, demands, and organizational attitudes are all related to burnout. Stronger relations were found in the current study than previous meta-analyses. The current relations are less susceptible to Type I errors considering that the number of samples used in most primary analyses was larger than 10. In addition, results suggest that some of the relations of job demands,
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