Job control and burnout across occupations.
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.
Taris
Toon W
TW
Radboud University Nijmegen, Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, The Netherlands. t.taris@psych.ru.nl
Stoffelsen
Jeroen
J
Bakker
Arnold B
AB
Schaufeli
Wilmar B
WB
van Dierendonck
Dirk
D
D000328:Adult; D002055:Burnout, Professional; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D009790:Occupations