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  • Occupational Health
  • Social Psychology

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  • Job burnout is a significant occupational health issue.
  • Anxiety Buffer Disruption Theory (ABDT) extends Terror Management Theory (TMT).
  • ABDT suggests psychological defenses against death concerns can be disrupted.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if burnout disrupts the anxiety-buffering system.
  • To test if high burnout hinders defense activation against mortality salience.
  • To extend ABDT by examining burnout's impact on psychological defenses.

Main Methods:

  • 418 nurses completed questionnaires with mortality salience (MS) manipulation and delay.
  • Measures included burnout, self-efficacy, and self-perception as a caregiver.
  • A three-way interaction between burnout, MS, and delay was analyzed.

Main Results:

  • Nurses with low burnout showed increased self-efficacy and positive self-perception post-MS (with delay).
  • Nurses with high burnout did not show these defensive effects.
  • A significant interaction confirmed burnout's role in disrupting anxiety buffering.

Conclusions:

  • High job burnout disrupts the anxiety buffer, impairing psychological defenses against mortality concerns.
  • Findings support the extension of ABDT to burnout.
  • Implications for healthcare professionals' well-being and interventions are discussed.