A large proportion of today's workforce finds itself coping with major responsibilities at home as well as rising expectations and demands on the job. The combination of work and family demands often leads to time pressure and conflict. As a result, a growing number of employees in today's organizations are suffering from burnout, a stress syndrome characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and diminished personal accomplishment. Burnout has consequences for family outcomes, including diminished positive affect, increased marital conflicts, and feelings of stress among family members. Effects on work outcomes have also been reported, such as diminished work performance and organizational commitment and increased absenteeism levels. In response to this problem, a broad array of research has focused on factors that reduce burnout, labeled as social support. This new book gathers the latest research from around the globe in this field.

Psychology Of Burnout: Predictors And Coping Mechanisms (psychology Research Progress)

Rachel V. Schwartzhoffer, editor

Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated

Psychology research progress series, New York, 2010

Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, 2009

United States, United States of America

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Burnout and compassion fatigue : the case of professional nurses in primary health care facilities in the Free State Province, South Africa / Michelle Engelbrecht, Henriëtte van den Berg and Coen Bester
Burnout and the antithesis of burnout : developing positive interventions for the well-being of Chinese teachers in Hong Kong / David W. Chan
Reducing burnout through support in the workplace and the family domain / Lieke L. ten Brummelhuis
The role of personality and coping style in burnout development : a study on need for recovery from work / Marc van Veldhoven and Geertje van Daalen
Whose exhaustion is greater than whose? Burnout in colorectal surgeons, vascular surgeons and colorectal nurse specialists working in the National Health Service / A. Sharma, L.G. Walker and J.R.T. Monson
The role of achievement and social strategies and of work-life areas in job burnout / Hely Innanen, Aino Juvakka and Katariina Salmela-Aro
Secondary traumatization : just another form of burnout? / Judith Daniels
Emotional openness as a protective factor against burnout / Philippe A. Genoud and Michaël Reicherts
Influence of emotional labor in demanding classroom situations on health and well-being of teachers / Anja Philipp and Heinz Schüpbach
The influence of social competence on occupational stress of nursing home staff caring for dementia patients / J. Haberstroh ... [et al.]
Family violence therapists : personal and social resources, role competence, secondary traumatization, and burnout / Anta Ben-Porat and Haya Itzhaky
Relationship between desire for control and job control and their effects on job burnout in health-care personnel / Marcel Lourel, Farida Mouda and Sandra Chevaleyre
Dimensions of teacher burnout and relations with perceived school context / Einar M. Skaalvik and Sidsel Skaalvik
Hospital pharmacists' job stresses : managerial recommendation for professional work health / Blossom Yen-Ju Lin, Ying-Chen Yeh and Wen-Hung Lin
'Male depression' in male adolescents; : a German community study / AM Möller-Leimküher, J Heller and N-C Paulus
Psychological aspects of burnout among staffs in long-term care homes / Jin Narumoto
Burnout among French high-school students / Sandra Zakari, Vera Walburg and Henri Chabrol.