title: Job control and burnout across occupations.
abstract: Researchers have reported that, for individual workers, low job control is associated with high burnout; however, as yet it is unclear whether this association holds for occupations as well. Whether differences in job control between occupations as assessed by eight expert judges could account for individual-level and occupational-level differences in burnout rates. Data were obtained from 9,503 incumbents of 28 occupations in The Netherlands (M age = 37.9 yr., SD = 8.7; 50% were men). Burnout was measured on the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Occupational-level job control was inversely correlated with burnout, explaining 16% of the variation in occupational-level burnout. Thus, between-occupation differences in job control are somewhat systematically related to burnout.
authors.affiliation: Radboud University Nijmegen, Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, The Netherlands. t.taris@psych.ru.nl
authors.forename: Toon W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Taris
authors.forename: Jeroen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stoffelsen
authors.forename: Arnold B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Bakker
authors.forename: Wilmar B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Schaufeli
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: van Dierendonck
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002055:Burnout, Professional; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D009790:Occupations