title: Self-handicapping and burnout.
abstract: Self-handicapping is a process containing strategies of externalization in which an individual can excuse failure and internalize success. This study investigated the relationship of self-handicapping with measures of burnout. The Self-handicapping Scale and the Maslach Burnout Inventory were administered to 309 university students. Self-handicapping was positively correlated to emotional exhaustion, lowered personal accomplishment, and depersonalization. A structural equation model fit the data well and accounted for 20% of the variance in emotional exhaustion, 14% in lowered personal accomplishment, and 10% in depersonalization.
authors.affiliation: Psychological Counseling Department, Sakarya University, Faculty of Education, Sakarya, Turkey. aakin@sakarya.edu.tr
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Akin
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000523:psychology*; D003861:Depersonalization / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult