Reciprocal Associations between Burnout and Depression: An 8?Year Longitudinal Study

The purpose of the present four-wave longitudinal study was to examine differentiation and reciprocal associations between burnout depression, their with a series correlates related employees’ physical psychological health (sleep disturbances, somatic symptoms, self-rated subjective health, life satisfaction). A total 542 early career Finnish workers filled out questionnaires four times over period 8 years. First, our results supported superiority bifactor exploratory structural equation modeling (bifactor-ESEM) representation ratings, empirical depression ratings each measurement occasion. These further revealed moderate cross-sectional supporting inter-related character but also distinctiveness. Second, autoregressive cross-lagged analyses that both constructs presented level stability time generalized all intervals considered. Finally, relations measures during last wave were in expected direction, whereas found be more weakly only subset these correlates. Taken together, thus support distinctiveness presence mutually reinforcing them.