Burnout Beyond Employment: Correlates of General, Parental, and Employee Burnout Among Working Mothers
Christopher J L Cunningham1, Kristen Jennings Black, Emma C Vosika
1From the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee (C.J.L.C., K.J.B., E.C.V., D.L.G.); and Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina (E.C.V.).
Objectives:
Burnout is typically studied as an employment-related phenomenon, but work-related demand and strain experiences can occur in all life domains. We construct-validated brief and easy-to-deploy measures of general, parental, and employee burnout, and contribute to the growing literature that supports expanding the conceptualization of burnout as a more complex and domain-spanning phenomenon than is typically reflected in research and practice.
Methods:
We explored, via survey, the general, parental, and employee burnout experiences of a large sample of working mothers (n = 2334).
Results:
Findings supported distinguishing among general, parental, and employee burnout, given unique patterns of correlations between these variables and a variety of health, well-being, demand, and resource variables.
Conclusions:
These findings support continued use of these new adapted burnout measures and inform practical recommendations for preventing burnout among working mothers.
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