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Burnout in Professional Psychotherapists: Relationships with Self-Compassion, Work–Life Balance, and Telepressure
Though negative impacts of COVID-19 on occupational mental health have been reported, the mental health of psychotherapists has not been evaluated in depth. As this occupational group treats ever-increasing mental health problems, it is essential to appraise key factors for their mental health. Acco...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8156437/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34067641 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105308 |
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author | Kotera, Yasuhiro Maxwell-Jones, Robert Edwards, Ann-Marie Knutton, Natalie |
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description | Though negative impacts of COVID-19 on occupational mental health have been reported, the mental health of psychotherapists has not been evaluated in depth. As this occupational group treats ever-increasing mental health problems, it is essential to appraise key factors for their mental health. Accordingly, this study aimed to explore burnout of professional psychotherapists. A total of 110 participants completed self-report measures regarding burnout, self-compassion, work–life balance and telepressure. Correlation, regression and moderation analyses were conducted. Both of the burnout components—emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation—were positively associated with weekly working hours and telepressure, and negatively associated with age, self-compassion and work–life balance. Weekly working hours and work–life balance were significant predictors of emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation. Lastly, self-compassion partially mediated the relationship between work–life balance and emotional exhaustion but did not mediate the relationship between work–life balance and depersonalisation. The findings suggest that maintaining high work–life balance is particularly important for the mental health of psychotherapists, protecting them from burnout. Moreover, self-compassion needs to be cultivated to mitigate emotional exhaustion. Mental health care for this occupational group needs to be implemented to achieve sustainable mental health care for workers and the public. |
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spelling | pubmed-81564372021-05-28 Burnout in Professional Psychotherapists: Relationships with Self-Compassion, Work–Life Balance, and Telepressure Kotera, Yasuhiro Maxwell-Jones, Robert Edwards, Ann-Marie Knutton, Natalie Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Though negative impacts of COVID-19 on occupational mental health have been reported, the mental health of psychotherapists has not been evaluated in depth. As this occupational group treats ever-increasing mental health problems, it is essential to appraise key factors for their mental health. Accordingly, this study aimed to explore burnout of professional psychotherapists. A total of 110 participants completed self-report measures regarding burnout, self-compassion, work–life balance and telepressure. Correlation, regression and moderation analyses were conducted. Both of the burnout components—emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation—were positively associated with weekly working hours and telepressure, and negatively associated with age, self-compassion and work–life balance. Weekly working hours and work–life balance were significant predictors of emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation. Lastly, self-compassion partially mediated the relationship between work–life balance and emotional exhaustion but did not mediate the relationship between work–life balance and depersonalisation. The findings suggest that maintaining high work–life balance is particularly important for the mental health of psychotherapists, protecting them from burnout. Moreover, self-compassion needs to be cultivated to mitigate emotional exhaustion. Mental health care for this occupational group needs to be implemented to achieve sustainable mental health care for workers and the public. MDPI 2021-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8156437/ /pubmed/34067641 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105308 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Kotera, Yasuhiro Maxwell-Jones, Robert Edwards, Ann-Marie Knutton, Natalie Burnout in Professional Psychotherapists: Relationships with Self-Compassion, Work–Life Balance, and Telepressure |
title | Burnout in Professional Psychotherapists: Relationships with Self-Compassion, Work–Life Balance, and Telepressure |
title_full | Burnout in Professional Psychotherapists: Relationships with Self-Compassion, Work–Life Balance, and Telepressure |
title_fullStr | Burnout in Professional Psychotherapists: Relationships with Self-Compassion, Work–Life Balance, and Telepressure |
title_full_unstemmed | Burnout in Professional Psychotherapists: Relationships with Self-Compassion, Work–Life Balance, and Telepressure |
title_short | Burnout in Professional Psychotherapists: Relationships with Self-Compassion, Work–Life Balance, and Telepressure |
title_sort | burnout in professional psychotherapists: relationships with self-compassion, work–life balance, and telepressure |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8156437/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34067641 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105308 |
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