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Beyond the Hype: (How) Are Work Regimes Associated with Job Burnout?
Job burnout affects countless workers and constitutes a major issue in working life. Prevention strategies such as offering part-time options and shorter working weeks have been widely advocated to address this issue. However, the relationship between shorter work regimes and burnout risk has not ye...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9965496/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36834026 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043331 |
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author | du Bois, Kristen Sterkens, Philippe Lippens, Louis Baert, Stijn Derous, Eva |
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description | Job burnout affects countless workers and constitutes a major issue in working life. Prevention strategies such as offering part-time options and shorter working weeks have been widely advocated to address this issue. However, the relationship between shorter work regimes and burnout risk has not yet been investigated across diverse working populations applying validated measures and frameworks for job burnout. Building on the most recent operationalisation of job burnout and the seminal job demands–resources theory, the purpose of the current study is to investigate whether shorter work regimes are associated with lower burnout risk and whether the job demands–resources explain this association. To this end, a heterogenous sample of 1006 employees representative for age and gender completed the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) and Workplace Stressors Assessment Questionnaire (WSAQ). Our mediation analyses yield a very small but significant indirect association between work regimes and burnout risk through job demands, but no significant total or direct association between work regimes and burnout risk. Our result suggests that employees in shorter work regimes experience slightly fewer job demands, but are equally prone to developing burnout as their full-time counterparts. The latter finding raises concerns about the sustainability of burnout prevention that focuses on mere work regimes instead of the root causes of burnout. |
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spelling | pubmed-99654962023-02-26 Beyond the Hype: (How) Are Work Regimes Associated with Job Burnout? du Bois, Kristen Sterkens, Philippe Lippens, Louis Baert, Stijn Derous, Eva Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Job burnout affects countless workers and constitutes a major issue in working life. Prevention strategies such as offering part-time options and shorter working weeks have been widely advocated to address this issue. However, the relationship between shorter work regimes and burnout risk has not yet been investigated across diverse working populations applying validated measures and frameworks for job burnout. Building on the most recent operationalisation of job burnout and the seminal job demands–resources theory, the purpose of the current study is to investigate whether shorter work regimes are associated with lower burnout risk and whether the job demands–resources explain this association. To this end, a heterogenous sample of 1006 employees representative for age and gender completed the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) and Workplace Stressors Assessment Questionnaire (WSAQ). Our mediation analyses yield a very small but significant indirect association between work regimes and burnout risk through job demands, but no significant total or direct association between work regimes and burnout risk. Our result suggests that employees in shorter work regimes experience slightly fewer job demands, but are equally prone to developing burnout as their full-time counterparts. The latter finding raises concerns about the sustainability of burnout prevention that focuses on mere work regimes instead of the root causes of burnout. MDPI 2023-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9965496/ /pubmed/36834026 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043331 Text en © 2023 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 du Bois, Kristen Sterkens, Philippe Lippens, Louis Baert, Stijn Derous, Eva Beyond the Hype: (How) Are Work Regimes Associated with Job Burnout? |
title | Beyond the Hype: (How) Are Work Regimes Associated with Job Burnout? |
title_full | Beyond the Hype: (How) Are Work Regimes Associated with Job Burnout? |
title_fullStr | Beyond the Hype: (How) Are Work Regimes Associated with Job Burnout? |
title_full_unstemmed | Beyond the Hype: (How) Are Work Regimes Associated with Job Burnout? |
title_short | Beyond the Hype: (How) Are Work Regimes Associated with Job Burnout? |
title_sort | beyond the hype: (how) are work regimes associated with job burnout? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9965496/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36834026 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043331 |
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