Work, home, and in-between: a longitudinal study of spillover
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A longitudinal study of hospital-based health care professionals (N=151) examined psychological states as a function of demands and resources in the workplace and at home. If found over the study interval (3 months) evidence of spillover relationships from the work to home environment, and to a lesser extent, evidence of spillover from home to work. A structural equation model focused on change, by including only relationships that enhanced the prediction of each measure beyond its inherent consistency across the study interval. Further, it considered relationships across the work and home domains in the context of relationships within each domain, so that spillover relationships were always in addition to domain-specific relationships. The analysis found health care workers' sense of professional efficacy to have the most wide-ranging relationships, with links within the work domain, the home domain, and the boundary between these two domains. The results suggest that in contrast with the lagged relationships of accomplishment with other constructs, the relationship of emotional exhaustion with dysfunctional coping responses occurs within an immediate time frame. The results are discussed in terms of an integrative model of work and family stress. The discussion makes suggestions for further research in this area. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-8863
Year: 1996
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Construct validity of the Maslach Burnout Inventory: a critical review and reconceptualization
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This article presents an evaluation of the construct validity of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). The authors base this critique on previously published findings and data collected through five studies carried out during an eight-year period, for which 328 social workers acted as respondents. Factor analyses and correlational studies designed to test predictions provided fairly consistent evidence for the utility of the MBI subscale measures of emotional exhaustion, personal accomplishment, and depersonalization. Additional analyses supported a reconceptualization of burnout and the MBI, one that regards exhaustion as the essence of burnout and treats accomplishment and depersonalization as related variables, but not as elements of burnout. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-8863
Year: 1989
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Role structure and burnout in the field of human services
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A study of the underlying causes of job burnout found that several factors of the worker's role structure relate to aspects of burnout. Emotional exhaustion decreases when an individual's social network extends beyond work. Personal accomplishment is buoyed by an ambiguous work structure. Depersonalization was found to relate heavily to individual attitudes and to be more prevalent among workers with concentrated support networks in ambiguous structures.
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-8863
Year: 1986
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