ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2015
Differentiating Burnout from Depression: Personality Matters!
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- The Relationship Between Burnout, Depression, and Anxiety: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Pooled it
- Predicting anxiety-related personality traits by means of serotonergic VNTR variants STin2 and 5-HTTLPR.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2023Article
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- Burnout among Iranian medical students: Prevalence and its relationship to personality dimensions and physical activity.European journal of translational myology · 2021Article
- Resilience to Stress and Resilience to Pain: Lessons from Molecular Neurobiology and Genetics.Trends in molecular medicine · 2020Review
- Effects of personality on the developmental trajectories of academic burnout among Korean medical students.PeerJ · 2020Article
- Comparison of occupational burnout scores among medical residents and their correlation with dimensions of TCI questionnaire.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2019Article
- Prevalence of burnout among German general practitioners: Comparison of physicians working in solo and group practices.PloS one · 2019Article
- A study on the characteristics of Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS) of workers in one electronics company.Annals of occupational and environmental medicine · 2019Article
- Is Balint training associated with the reduced burnout among primary health care doctors?The Libyan journal of medicine · 2018Article
- The effects of personality traits on academic burnout in Korean medical students.Integrative medicine research · 2017Article
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Abstract
Stress-related affective disorders have been identified as a core health problem of the twenty-first century. In the endeavor to identify vulnerability factors, personality has been discussed as a major factor explaining and predicting disorders like depression or burnout. An unsolved question is whether there are specific personality factors allowing differentiation of burnout from depression. The present study tested the relation between one of the most prominent, biological personality theories, Cloninger's Temperament and Character Inventory, and common measures of burnout (Maslach Burnout Inventory General) and depression (Beck Depression Inventory 2) in a sample of German employees (N = 944) and a sample of inpatients (N = 425). Although the same personality traits (harm avoidance and self-directedness) were predominantly associated with burnout and depression, there was a much stronger association to depression than to burnout in both samples. Besides, we observed specific associations between personality traits and subcomponents of burnout. Our results underline differences in the association of burnout vs. depression to personality, which may mirror differences in scope. While symptoms of depression affect all aspects of life, burnout is supposed to be specifically related to the workplace and its requirements. The much stronger association of personality to depression can be important to select appropriate therapy methods and to develop a more specified treatment for burnout in comparison to depression.
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