Coping with Stress and Types of Burnout: Explanatory Power of Different Coping Strategies

Jesus Montero-Marin, Javier Prado-Abril, Marcelo Marcos Piva Demarzo, Santiago Gascon and Javier García-Campayo

PLOS ONE, 2014, vol. 9, issue 2, 1-9

Abstract: Background: Burnout occurs when professionals use ineffective coping strategies to try to protect themselves from work-related stress. The dimensions of ‘overload’, ‘lack of development’ and ‘neglect’, belonging to the ‘frenetic’, ‘under-challenged’ and ‘worn-out’ subtypes, respectively, comprise a brief typological definition of burnout. The aim of the present study was to estimate the explanatory power of the different coping strategies on the development of burnout subtypes. Methods: This was a cross-sectional survey with a random sample of university employees, stratified by occupation (n = 429). Multivariate linear regression models were constructed between the ‘Burnout Clinical Subtypes Questionnaire’, with its three dimensions –overload, lack of development and neglect– as dependent variables, and the ‘Coping Orientation for Problem Experiences’, with its fifteen dimensions, as independent variables. Adjusted multiple determination coefficients and beta coefficients were calculated to evaluate and compare the explanatory capacity of the different coping strategies. Results: The ‘Coping Orientation for Problem Experiences’ subscales together explained 15% of the ‘overload’ (p

Date: 2014
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