Exploring intergenerational differences in burnout and how they relate to work engagement, norms, and values: a mixed-methods study

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Carolien De Maeyer, Birgitte Schoenmakers

Abstract

Burnout has been on the rise in recent years. Is this increasing prevalence due to changing working circumstances, or also to a changing societal context? The aim of the study was to explore intergenerational differences in burnout. The study used a mixed quantitative and qualitative design, and tested the theory of the job demands-resources model (JD-RM). The target group of this research was the working population in Belgium, aged between 21-65 years. The study was performed in a public setting with people recruited through social media. A quantitative web survey was distributed among the participants to explore the prevalence of burnout, work ethic, work engagement, and norms and values. The second part of the study used a focus group technique to explore in depth the eight statements that were formulated from the quantitative survey. A total of 309 people participated in the web survey and 21.5% met the criteria for 'burnout', while 22.6% scored high on the criteria for 'engagement'. It was found that 12.6% of all men and 3.0% of all women could not identify with the portrait of 'equivalence'. The value 'benevolence' was positively rated by 100%. In the youngest generation, 71.3 % identified with the portrait of 'stimulatio...Continue Reading

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