2014/04/02 by Kirsi Ahola, Jari Hakanen, Riku Perhoniemi +1 · 9 citations
Health Professions · Business, Management and Accounting · #Workplace Health and Well-being #Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout #Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.burn.2014.03.003
openalex publication_date 2014/04/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
We applied a person-centred approach to study the relationship between burnout and depressive symptoms at baseline and over seven years. We examined how the symptom clusters and trajectories are related to the baseline sociodemographic and psychosocial work characteristics. At baseline, burnout and depressive symptoms clustered into three groups: low, intermediate, and high level of symptoms. Four developmental trajectories – low, high, increasing and decreasing symptoms – emerged in the longitudinal analysis. The psychosocial work characteristics were reflected in the level and development of the symptoms. The results support the conceptual similarity between burnout and depressive symptoms in the work context.