Psychology · Motivation & Emotion
A topic within Motivation & Emotion, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Psychology.
2 works
Christina Maslach & Susan E. Jackson
Introduces the Maslach Burnout Inventory and argues burnout among people in caring professions has three distinct components - emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and reduced personal accomplishment - rather than being one undifferentiated state.
Christina Maslach, Wilmar B. Schaufeli & Michael P. Leiter
Reframes burnout from an occupational hazard specific to caring professions into a mismatch between a person and six domains of their job - workload, control, reward, community, fairness and values - that anyone can experience.