Browsing by Subject "burnout"

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    A Comparison of Mental Health in the United States and Morocco: A Literature Review and Summary of Responses by Students
    (2021-05) Adamek, Andrew J
    This review article is based on a partnership between the University of Minnesota and the Hassan II University Hospital Center in a virtual internship. I have compiled my experiences, the experiences of a surgeon in Morocco, studies on mental health in both countries, and two questionnaires that were completed by students in both countries into a report of the differences and similarities in mental health in the two countries and recommendations for improvement for each. We have found that, there is a similar rate of burnout of physicians in the two countries, around 40%, the rate of mental health conditions is higher in Morocco, at 48.9%, than the United States, at 20.6%, and that there are more barriers to accessing mental health care in Morocco for many complex reasons, for example less funding for psychological units and a culture of mental health stigmatization. Based on these results, we recommend that for Morocco, it is essential to create a strong and national system to combat the stigma of mental health conditions and increase access to mental health resources, which may lead to more psychological units for students in schools and more psychologists in hospitals on-site for psychological assessments on demand that will be needed when the stigma around mental health is reduced. For the United States, we recommend that even more resources are necessary for mental health, considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and, when safe, for students to return to in-person classes, as students indicate many difficulties with online learning during COVID-19.
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    Comprehensive Meta-Analyses Of Perfectionism And A Synthesis For Work Psychology
    (2021-09) Tian, Jingyuan
    Research on perfectionism has flourished amidst growing evidence of its positive and negative influences across different domains in life. Past research on perfectionism relied on a variety of models of perfectionism and there is still no consensus on the content and structure of this construct. This represents a major barrier to our understanding of perfectionism and how it is related to important work outcomes. This dissertation presents a comprehensive meta-analysis of perfectionism to clarify the nomological net of the construct and provide evidence of perfectionism constructs’ criterion-related validities for work-related well-being, performance and motivational variables. Study 1 identified five facets of perfectionism: Perfectionistic Strivings, Orderliness, Perfectionistic Concerns, Socially-Prescribed Perfectionism (SPP) and Other-Oriented Perfectionism (OOP), and found two higher-order factors of perfectionism: Adaptive and Maladaptive perfectionism, as well as a general factor of perfectionism. Study 2 found that perfectionism is most strongly related to Conscientiousness and Neuroticism, with Perfectionistic Strivings and Adaptive perfectionism having stronger ties to Conscientiousness, and Perfectionistic Concerns and Maladaptive perfectionism having stronger ties to Neuroticism. In Study 3, sex differences in perfectionism were found to be negligible and age was weakly related with certain perfectionism constructs for adult samples only. Study 4 found that individuals with higher Adaptive perfectionism tend to have higher positive well-being (e.g. positive affect), academic performance, engagement and active coping styles; while those higher in Maladaptive perfectionism tend to have worse well-being (e.g. stress, burnout), procrastinate more and have avoidant coping styles. Perfectionism facets had incremental validity over the Big Five in predicting happiness, quality of life, job satisfaction, burnout, primary coping, broad disengagement, academic performance, engagement and procrastination. Finally, Study 5 identified the criterion profile patterns of perfectionism facets and found that individuals’ perfectionism facet patterns accounted for significantly more variance in nearly all of the criteria examined compared to perfectionism’s level effect (i.e., overall perfectionism). In sum, this dissertation provided evidence for an empirically validated taxonomy of perfectionism constructs that can guide future research on this personality trait. The comprehensive quantitative summary of perfectionism constructs’ nomological nets related perfectionism to a range of important criteria and work outcomes, and thus contributed to knowledge and potential usage of this construct in practical applications.
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    The Effectiveness of the ACHIEVER Adult Resilience Curriculum in Promoting Teacher Wellbeing
    (2017-06) Christian, Elizabeth
    Teaching is a multifaceted profession, capturing a range of experiences that are exciting, rewarding, challenging, frustrating, and exhausting. Research has shown that teachers are at high risk of chronic stress and burnout which impacts teacher health, wellbeing, and effectiveness in the classroom. In the present study, the effectiveness of a theoretically based professional development program—the ACHIEVER Resilience Curriculum (ARC)—to increase teacher wellbeing and decrease symptoms of burnout was examined. The ARC training integrates several wellness promotion practices into one comprehensive program. To evaluate the effectiveness of the ARC, a randomized block controlled study with pre-post data collection was performed. The sample included 67 teachers from six schools in one large urban school district. Analyses showed that teachers who received ARC training experienced increased feelings of efficacy, overall subjective wellbeing, and reduced emotional exhaustion compared to an attention control group. In addition, increased feelings of wellbeing and reduced emotional exhaustion were correlated with higher quality teacher-student interactions. Evidence from this study also suggests that demographic variables such as grade level taught or number of years of teaching experience may moderate the effects of the ARC, indicating a need for continued research on the function and effectiveness of this program. Finally, teachers who received the ARC training indicated they found it to be feasible and acceptable for use in schools to promote teachers’ wellbeing. The implications of these findings for teacher training and practice, suggestions for future research, and the limitations of this study are discussed.
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    The Role of Leader Health Orientation on the Relationship Between Employee Self-Care and Job Burnout Among Applied Behavior Analysis Practitioners
    (2023-01) Kleive, Kalei M
    Professionals within the field of applied behavior analysis (ABA) are at a high risk of feeling exhausted and disengaged, both of which are components of burnout (e.g., Slowiak & DeLongchamp, 2022). Franke and colleagues (2014) introduced the concepts of self- and follower-directed health-oriented leadership; each were said to be an effective personal and job resource, respectively. Understanding that resources may be used to mitigate the strain of high job demands, this study examined the relationship between Employee Self-Care and burnout among ABA practitioners and how having a healthoriented leader (Leader Staff Care) influences that relationship. In a sample of 137 ABA practitioners, 87.25% reported moderate to high levels of burnout, and burnout was negatively associated with Employee Self-Care. While Employee Self-Care values, awareness, and behaviors were predictors of burnout, Leader Staff Care did not moderate the effect of Employee Self-Care on burnout. Though Leader Staff Care was not a significant moderator with all three components (i.e., value, awareness, behavior), Leader Staff Care behavior was the most influential moderator between Employee Self-Care and employee disengagement. The results of this study contribute to the literature by providing new knowledge on the role of health-oriented leadership and how it can be used as an organizational job resource by those in leadership roles to mitigate job demands and reduce burnout among ABA practitioners. Leaders should consider how they can best support employees self-care awareness, values, and behaviors as findings illustrate the importance of employee self-care as a personal resource.
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    Telecommuting Intensity’s Impact on Job Satisfaction and Burnout: A Moderated Mediation Model of Work-Family Conflict and Emotional Intelligence
    (2023-05) Sanchez, Katherine
    The purpose of this study was to examine whether emotional intelligence moderated the mediating effect of work-family conflict on the relationship between telecommuting intensity and job satisfaction and burnout. This study used a non-experimental, crosssectional research design. A convenience sample of 369 faculty in higher education who lived and worked in the United States and responded to a recruitment message participated in this study. Participants accessed a survey in Qualtrics via a link provided in an email or accessible via electronic posting. We collected sociodemographic and jobrelated information in addition to information about telecommuting, work-family conflict, emotional intelligence, job satisfaction, and burnout. Results showed that telecommuting intensity had a significant predictive effect on work-family conflict and job satisfaction, exhaustion, and disengagement; work-family conflict played a mediating role in the relationship between telecommuting intensity and job satisfaction, exhaustion, and disengagement; emotional intelligence played a moderating role in the relationship between work-family conflict and disengagement, as well as the indirect negative relationship (via work-family conflict) between telecommuting intensity and disengagement. Findings from this study add to the research on the relationship between telecommuting intensity and job satisfaction, exhaustion, and disengagement. This study informs future research on the effects of telecommuting and provide ideas for workplace interventions to increase job satisfaction and reduce burnout among faculty in higher education.
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    Work Ability and Job Burnout: A Moderated Mediation Model of Health-Related Organizational Climate and Work-Health Management Interference
    (2023-05) McDonough, Mariah
    The purpose of this study was to determine how work ability, health-related organizational climate, and work health management interference (WHMI) contributed to burnout, with a particular interest in those with lower levels of work ability as a result of chronic illness/disease. The overall research objective was to examine whether healthrelated organizational climate moderated the mediating effect of work-health management interference on the relationship between work ability and job burnout. A convenience sample of 2,056 adults living and working in the United States who responded to a recruitment message participated in this study. Participants accessed a survey in Qualtrics via a link provided in an email or accessible via electronic posting and completed a survey that included sociodemographic and job-related items, as well as measures to evaluate levels of work ability, burnout, WHMI, and health-oriented organizational climate. Results showed that work ability had a significant predictive effect on burnout, WHMI played a mediating role in the relationship between work ability and burnout, and organizational health-related climate was found to play a moderating role in the relationship between work ability and WHMI. These findings add to research on the relationship between work ability and burnout and serve as a foundation for organizations to adapt and develop strategies to better support employees with lowered work ability due to chronic disease/health conditions in order to reduce job burnout and improve well-being and productivity.