Job burnout and depression: Unraveling their temporal relationship and considering the role of physical activity.

Abstract

Job burnout and depression have been generally found to be correlated with one another. However, evidence regarding the job burnout-depression association is limited in that most studies are cross-sectional in nature. Moreover, little is known about factors that may influence the job burnout-depression association, other than individual or organizational factors (e.g., gender, supervisor support). The current study seeks to address these gaps by (a) unraveling the temporal relationship between job burnout and depression and (b) examining whether the job burnout-depression association may be contingent upon the degree to which employees engage in physical activity. On the basis of a full-panel 3-wave longitudinal design with a large sample of employees (N = 1,632), latent difference score modeling indicated that an increase in depression from Time 1 to Time 2 predicts an increase in job burnout from Time 2 to Time 3, and vice versa. In addition, physical activity attenuated these effects in a dose-response manner, so that the increase in job burnout and depression was strongest among employees who did not engage in physical activity and weakest to the point of nonsignificance among those engaging in high physical activity.

Reciprocal relationship between proactive personality and work characteristics: A latent change score approach.

“…Like many previous studies using this methodology in personality psychology (e.g., Jackson et al, 2012) and organizational psychology (e.g., Toker & Biron, 2012), our time intervals were uneven. However, this concern may be alleviated as reunification effects may decay over time (Fay & Sonnentag, 2002).…”

“…This approach is appropriate to test lagged and reciprocal effects associated with individual differences in change. It has been used to study personality change (Jackson, Hill, Payne, Roberts, & Stine-Morrow, 2012) and dynamic relationships in I/O psychology (Toker & Biron, 2012). Figure 1 presents a path diagram of a bivariate LCS model with two factors: proactive personality and a work attribute.…”

Psychosocial health on workers who practice Pilates: a descriptive-comparative study

“…También dentro del ámbito educativo, el mindfulness se considera una herramienta eficaz de autorregulación emocional y prevención del estrés propiciando una mejor calidad de vida en los profesionales de la educación (Delgado et al, 2010). A pesar de estas evidencias, todavía hay una escasez de estudios sobre el potencial de la actividad física para proteger la salud negativa contra las consecuencias del estrés laboral (Gerber, Ingibjorg, Lindwall, & Ahlborg, 2014) y el desgaste profesional (Toker & Biron, 2012). El mé-todo Pilates, como se ha podido comprobar, tampoco es una excepción y precisa de nuevas investigaciones.…”

Burnout and Depressive Symptomatology of the Employees in Institutions of Chronic Diseases

“…Furthermore, a reduced sense of superiority and a perceived loss of status are more characteristic for depressed than for those who are burnt-out (Brenninkmeyer et al 2001). The relationship between burnout and depression has been studied in numerous of studies and an association between the two of them has been observed (Ahola et al 2014;Fong et al 2016;Toker and Biron 2012). Additionally, in some studies, the distinctiveness between these two terms is not always attainable.…”