{"id":202,"date":"2024-04-28T22:03:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T22:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/src.cikeys.com\/2024\/?page_id=202"},"modified":"2024-05-03T00:52:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T00:52:02","slug":"an-existential-approach-to-burnout","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/src.cikeys.com\/2024\/conference-schedule\/poster-presentations\/poster-presentations-session-1\/an-existential-approach-to-burnout\/","title":{"rendered":"An Existential Approach to Burnout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ulises Ventura Rivera, &amp; Dr. Melissa Soenke<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently, COVID-19 has contributed to higher rates of burnout and job turnover across a wide variety of occupations. The current study examines burnout through a Terror Management Theory (TMT; Greenberg, Solomon, &amp; Pyszczynski, 1986) perspective. TMT posits that awareness of mortality can cause anxiety that individuals manage through cultural worldviews and self-esteem. One aspect of cultural worldviews that provides self-esteem, and a source of meaning and purpose is one\u2019s occupation. Individuals can gain a sense of self-worth through viewing their occupation as a highly valued cultural role thus diminishing the potential anxiety caused by reminders of death (McCabe &amp; Daly, 2018). Prior research has shown that people experiencing high rates of burnout in nursing, an occupation where experiences with death are high, express atypical responses to reminders of death consistent with the anxiety buffer disruption theory of TMT (Pyszczynski &amp; Kesbir, 2011). When nurses who are high in burnout are reminded of death, they show lower levels of typical defensive responses than those not reminded of death or those low in burnout (Trifiletti et al., 2017). Our study will expand on this research and investigate the idea that people high in burnout, unable to use their occupation, a valued aspect of their culture, as a source of self-esteem will be less well protected from concerns of death, and so show higher death thought accessibility (DTA; unconscious thoughts about death; Hayes et al., 2010) and lower levels of meaning in life (Krause, 2007) than those low in burnout. For this study, we will measure participants\u2019 symptoms of occupational burnout using the Maslach Burnout Inventory (Maslach, Jackson, &amp; Leiter, 1997), followed by a measure of DTA and the meaning in life questionnaire. To measure DTA, we will use a measure that includes a set of 20 word fragments that participants complete by filling in two missing letters (DTA; Greenberg et al., 1994). Six of the 20 words can be completed as either neutral or death-related words. We hypothesize that participants high in burnout will show higher DTA and lower levels of meaning in life than those low in burnout.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/src.cikeys.com\/2024\/conference-schedule\/poster-presentations\/\">Poster Presentation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/src.cikeys.com\/2024\/conference-schedule\/poster-presentations\/poster-presentations-session-1\/\">Session 1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9:15am&nbsp;<strong>\u2013<\/strong>&nbsp;10:30am<br>Grand Salon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Psychology<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ulises Ventura Rivera, &amp; Dr. Melissa Soenke Recently, COVID-19 has contributed to higher rates of burnout and job turnover across a wide variety of occupations. The current study examines burnout through a Terror Management Theory (TMT; Greenberg, Solomon, &amp; Pyszczynski, 1986) perspective. 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