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From Burnout to Occupational Depression: Recent Developments in Research on Job-Related Distress and Occupational Health
Job-related distress has been a focal concern in occupational health science. Job-related distress has a well-documented health-damaging and life-threatening character, not to mention its economic cost. In this article, we review recent developments in research on job-related distress and examine on...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8702721/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34957039 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.796401 |
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author | Schonfeld, Irvin Sam Bianchi, Renzo |
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description | Job-related distress has been a focal concern in occupational health science. Job-related distress has a well-documented health-damaging and life-threatening character, not to mention its economic cost. In this article, we review recent developments in research on job-related distress and examine ongoing changes in how job-related distress is conceptualized and assessed. By adopting an approach that is theoretically, empirically, and clinically informed, we demonstrate how the construct of burnout and its measures, long favored in research on job-related distress, have proved to be problematic. We underline a new recommendation for addressing job-related distress within the long-established framework of depression research. In so doing, we present the Occupational Depression Inventory, a recently developed instrument devised to assess depressive symptoms that individuals specifically attribute to their work. We close our paper by laying out the advantages of a paradigm shift from burnout to occupational depression. |
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spelling | pubmed-87027212021-12-25 From Burnout to Occupational Depression: Recent Developments in Research on Job-Related Distress and Occupational Health Schonfeld, Irvin Sam Bianchi, Renzo Front Public Health Public Health Job-related distress has been a focal concern in occupational health science. Job-related distress has a well-documented health-damaging and life-threatening character, not to mention its economic cost. In this article, we review recent developments in research on job-related distress and examine ongoing changes in how job-related distress is conceptualized and assessed. By adopting an approach that is theoretically, empirically, and clinically informed, we demonstrate how the construct of burnout and its measures, long favored in research on job-related distress, have proved to be problematic. We underline a new recommendation for addressing job-related distress within the long-established framework of depression research. In so doing, we present the Occupational Depression Inventory, a recently developed instrument devised to assess depressive symptoms that individuals specifically attribute to their work. We close our paper by laying out the advantages of a paradigm shift from burnout to occupational depression. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8702721/ /pubmed/34957039 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.796401 Text en Copyright © 2021 Schonfeld and Bianchi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Schonfeld, Irvin Sam Bianchi, Renzo From Burnout to Occupational Depression: Recent Developments in Research on Job-Related Distress and Occupational Health |
title | From Burnout to Occupational Depression: Recent Developments in Research on Job-Related Distress and Occupational Health |
title_full | From Burnout to Occupational Depression: Recent Developments in Research on Job-Related Distress and Occupational Health |
title_fullStr | From Burnout to Occupational Depression: Recent Developments in Research on Job-Related Distress and Occupational Health |
title_full_unstemmed | From Burnout to Occupational Depression: Recent Developments in Research on Job-Related Distress and Occupational Health |
title_short | From Burnout to Occupational Depression: Recent Developments in Research on Job-Related Distress and Occupational Health |
title_sort | from burnout to occupational depression: recent developments in research on job-related distress and occupational health |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8702721/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34957039 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.796401 |
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