title: A prospective study of the association between obesity and burnout among apparently healthy men and women.
abstract: The authors prospectively tested the hypothesis that obesity predicts burnout and the reverse-causation hypothesis that burnout predicts obesity. Respondents were 724 men and 340 women, apparently healthy employees, who underwent routine periodic health examinations at 2 points of time about 18 months apart. Obesity was assessed by body mass index, waist-hip ratio, and waist circumference. In regression analyses, done separately for men and women, the authors controlled for depressive symptomatology, sport activity, and Time 1 levels of the criterion. The hypothesis that burnout predicts obesity was not supported. The authors found that Time 1 measures of obesity predicted reductions rather than the hypothesized elevations of Time 2 burnout levels. The authors also found that for male respondents with relatively higher levels of Time 1 burnout, the higher their level of Time 1 obesity measure, the lower their level of T2 burnout.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: Galit
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Armon
authors.forename: Arie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shirom
authors.forename: Shlomo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Berliner
authors.forename: Itzhak
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Shapira
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Melamed
mesh_terms: D015992:Body Mass Index; D002055:Burnout, Professional; D003863:Depression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D007557:Israel; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000209:etiology*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D049629:Waist-Hip Ratio