Personal authenticity as a resource for coping with burnout syndrome

This study is devoted to the search and analysis of the relationship between the personal authenticity and the burnout syndrome in representatives of different professions: doctors, military personnel and sport coaches. The study was conducted using two diagnostic methods: the Maslach Burnout Inventory and the Authenticity Scale by A. Wood. The sample consisted of 502 people, including 206 doctors, 123 sport coaches and 173 military personnel. The results showed the presence of a reliable correlation composition, in which authenticity (the Authentic Living subscale) is reliably and negatively associated with the components of burnout syndrome (Emotional exhaustion, Depersonalization, Reduction of achievements), and the «reverse side» of authenticity – Self-Alienation and Accepting External Influences – is positively associated with burnout. Regression analysis showed that in all three groups, authenticity is indeed a negative predictor of burnout, but in different ways. The strongest influence was found in the group of doctors who have the greatest contribution to the experience of burnout is Self-Alienation. In the group of coaches, only Authentic Living makes a negative contribution to the manifestations of professional burnout. Similar patterns were found in the group of military personnel, but the determination of connections was higher than that of the coaches, but still lower than that of the doctors. Authenticity can be reasonably considered a psychological resource of coping with professional burnout.

Keywords

authenticity, well-being, burnout syndrome, mental resource, doctors, sport coaches, military personnel

Acknowledgment

Study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project 20-18-00262.

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07.05.2021

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11.05.2022

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GOST	Bochaver K., Reznichenko S. Personal authenticity as a resource for coping with burnout syndrome // Psikhologicheskii zhurnal – 2022. – V. 43. – Issue 2 C. 61-71 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://psy.jes.su/S020595920019413-0-1 (circulation date: 27.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S020595920019413-0
MLA	Bochaver, K. A., Reznichenko, S. "Personal authenticity as a resource for coping with burnout syndrome." Psikhologicheskii zhurnal 43.2 (2022):61-71. DOI: 10.31857/S020595920019413-0
APA	Bochaver K., Reznichenko S. (2022). Personal authenticity as a resource for coping with burnout syndrome. Psikhologicheskii zhurnal 43(2), pp.61-71 DOI: 10.31857/S020595920019413-0

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