When we hear term burnout most of us would think about working long hours and stress built up from jobs and people consist in them.
A stunning latest study shows that only minimum people with burinout actually think their symbols are due to their work.
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The research which was led by team from Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU could challenge traditional approach about how public reach burnout and how we may be able to save against it.
Less that 30 % of person surveyed blamed their duty as primary reason they fell burnt out.
The researchers suggest broader range of factors and pressures in life are behind burnout not just happening at work.
The World Health Organization describes burnout as chronic workplace stress with three dimensions exhaustion or lack of energy increased distance from or negativity towards work and behaviour that less professional.
Definitions involving work have in fact been around since the term burnout was first coined by US psychologist Herbert Freudenberger.
It was applied to people in caregiving professions before being expanded to all types of jobs.
Those definitions may need rethink the researchers behind latest study suggest not just so we can better recognize burnout and its symbols but that we can improve methods of dealing with it.
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Focusing on work enviroment wouldnot make difference if burnout has little to do with work to start with.
Burning out can negativity affect mental and physical health in whole host of ways and of course can driven by work in some case but by family financial or health family issued according to researchers.
The researchers mention job security coworker support and self determination as method of minimizing the risk of burnout at work as well as finding a career doing something you love if you are lucky enough to be able to.
“Not everyone as fortunate to love their job and as result have capacity to tolerate more stress at work says Bianchi.
“But it is important to find a meaningful job and then put in work needed to succeed”
“For people with more anxious personaltiy worries and stress can drain a lot of energy without it necessarily being solely about their job” says Bianchi.
The researhc involved 813 employees in Norway some of whom had reported feelings of burnout.
The scientists compared what participants perceived as contributing factors to burnout exhaustion and non specific psychological distress.
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Burnout tended to have strongest link with job variables but some work related factors like job security and colleague support were more linked with general psychological stress that with burnout the data showed.
Only 27.7 percent of participants with burnout symptoms said thought works was main reason they felt burned out.
This is not study where majority of people with burnout have said work is not the primary cause.
The researchers note that burnout and its triggers can workd differently for everyone.
“People who experience burnout describes stress in daily lives which leads to a form of depression” says Psychologist Renzo Bianchi from NTNU
“You could call it depressive stress in life”
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Less than 30 percent of people surveyed blamed their job as primary reason they fell burnout
The researches suggest vast range of factors and pressures in everyday life are behind burnout not just what happening at work.
The researhc published in Journal of Psychosomatic Research.
