2 Acknowledgements I would like to thank Professor Woolard for accepting me as an advisee and for all the help and guidance she has provided throughout this process. I would also like to share my deepest thanks with Sarah Vidal, PhD Candidate. She has dedicated hours to helping me think through, analyze and edit all sections of my thesis while calming my fears along the way. I would not have be...

INTRODUCTION The main goal of the present study was to analyze the burnout syndrome due to selected personality traits (based on the Cloninger's psychobiological personality model and positive and negative affectivity) and the degree of mismatch between teachers and their work environment (described in terms of the Model of Worklife Areas). The 2nd goal was to determine if the participants coul...

OBJECTIVE To test the association between psychosocial factors and circulating levels of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) in a normal population sample. Psychosocial factors have been associated with inflammatory markers and are of prognostic significance for coronary artery disease (CAD). The degrading enzyme MMP-9 is upregulated in inflammatory processes and hypothesized to play a role in t...

BACKGROUND Transition from comprehensive school to later educational tracks is challenging for many adolescents. The present three-wave longitudinal study conducted in Finland considers this issue from the perspective of school burnout. AIMS The study investigated the extent to which school-related burnout (exhaustion, cynicism, and feelings of inadequacy) changes during the transition from c...

The substantial body of research employing subjective measures indicates that burnout syndrome is associated with cognitive and emotional dysfunctions. The growing amount of neurophysiological and neuroimaging research helps in broadening existing knowledge of the neural mechanisms underlying core burnout components (emotional exhaustion and depersonalization/cynicism) that are inextricably ass...

Mobing is an office illness that poses a problem to the performance and efficiency of organizations. Cynicism negative behaviors wrong attitudes employees develop against their organizations organizational system. Organizational commitment devotion organization wholehearted loyalty organization. In today's competitive environment, this very important for success This research was conducted dete...

BACKGROUND Although curricular reforms have attempted to address sources of stress in medical residency, no recent studies have examined the financial or emotional situations of current medicine residents. OBJECTIVE To question medicine residents about financial status, educational debt, moonlighting, and psychological issues. DESIGN Survey distributed in a nonrandomized fashion to medicine...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the relation between work-family conflict and burnout, and the mediating role of psychological capital (PsyCap) in the relation between work-family conflict and burnout, among Chinese doctors. METHODS This cross-sectional study was performed during the period of September/October 2010. A questionnaire that comprised work-family conflict asse...

Burnout is a multidimensional work-related syndrome that is characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization-or cynicism-and diminution of personal accomplishment. Burnout particularly affects physicians. In medicine as well as other professions, burnout occurrence depends on personal, developmental-psychodynamic, professional, and environmental factors. Recently, it has been proposed t...