Who burns out more? Comparison of Burnout Levels Between Teachers and Physicians in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11110/19:10405725 RIV/00064165:_____/19:10405725

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41470-019-00034-3" target="_blank" >10.1007/s41470-019-00034-3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Who burns out more? Comparison of Burnout Levels Between Teachers and Physicians in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Despite burnout being considered primarily a syndrome related to medical professionals, it is now known that it affects a wider range of professions as well. It is seen as a state of complete physical, emotional, and cognitive depletion. In physicians, not only can burnout lead to work-related absenteeism but also it may affect their patients while teachers&apos; burnout may affect the mental well-being of their students. This study explored whether teachers have higher or comparable rates of burnout with the burnout rates of physicians. Furthermore, we compared them to the norms we established in the Czech Republic in the previous year. Cross-sectional data collection was utilized through a combination of multiple questionnaires. The questionnaires analyzed for the purpose of this study were the SMBM and BDI-II. Regardless of gender, physicians suffer from significantly higher burnout symptomatology when compared with teachers. These differences were found to be statistically significant. Furthermore, significant differences were also found between males with depressive symptomatology. We did not observe this difference in females. Our results suggest that, although burnout is a syndrome that appears regardless of profession, its manifestation can be quite different depending on the type of job. Overall, higher levels of burnout were found among female teachers compared with their male counterparts; between physicians, the situation was reversed; burnout affected more males than females. In all categories, more females were within the norm of Czech population. Nonetheless, the risk of burnout should not be underestimated in either of these professions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-21302S" target="_blank" >GA16-21302S: Burnout syndrom of teachers - institutional, relational and intrapsychic factors</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Activitas Nervosa Superior

ISSN

1802-9698

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

61

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

5

Pages from-to

165-169

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85073998901