SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
The Relationship between Flow Experience and Burnout Symptoms: A Systematic Review.
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- Development and validation of a flow state scale for healthcare professionals.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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- Understanding the association of calligraphy activities with flow experience, peace of mind, and self-focused attention among university students.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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- Can flow proneness be protective against mental and cardiovascular health problems? A genetically informed prospective cohort study.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- Burnout syndrome in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American ophthalmologists: a cross-sectional analysis.International ophthalmology · 2024Observational
- Trajectories of mindfulness, flow experience, and stress during an online-based MBSR program: the moderating role of emotional exhaustion.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The influence of leader-subordinate emotional intelligence congruence on the flow experience: evidence from the liquor manufacturing industry.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Are algorithmically controlled gig workers deeply burned out? An empirical study on employee work engagement.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- Identifying the communication of burnout syndrome on the Twitter platform from the individual, organizational, and environmental perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Emotional distress and burnout at a fever clinic in China: Comparison between different periods of COVID-19.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn today's performance-oriented society, burnout symptoms, defined as consequences of chronic work stress, are an increasing problem. To counteract this development, the important aims are (1) to find protective and modifiable factors that reduce the risk of developing and harboring burnout symptoms and (2) to understand the underlying mechanisms. A phenomenon potentially furthering both aims is flow experience. Based on the earlier literature, we developed a psycho-physiological "Flow-Burnout-Model", which postulates positive or negative associations between flow and burnout symptoms, depending on the prevailing situational and personal conditions.
methodsTo test our Flow-Burnout-Model, we conducted a systematic literature search encompassing flow and burnout symptoms. Eighteen empirical studies met the inclusion criteria and were analyzed.
resultsThe findings of the systematic review as a whole suggest a negative association between flow and burnout symptoms, both cross-sectional and longitudinal. According to the findings from longitudinal studies, flow can be interpreted as a protective factor against burnout symptoms, and burnout symptoms can be interpreted as a factor inhibiting flow. In our conclusion, we maintain the assumption of a bidirectional association between flow and burnout symptoms in the Flow-Burnout-Model but modify the initially suggested positive and negative associations between flow and burnout symptoms towards a predominantly negative relationship. DISCUSSION: Mindful of the heterogeneous findings of earlier studies, the resulting comprehensive Flow-Burnout-Model will lay the foundations for future hypothesis-based research. This includes physiological mechanisms explaining the relationship between flow and burnout symptoms, and likewise, the conditions of their longitudinal association.
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