Institute of Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, NE, Switzerland.
Department of Psychology, The City College of the City University of New York, New York City, New York.
J Clin Psychol. 2020 Apr;76(4):801-821. doi: 10.1002/jclp.22927. Epub 2020 Jan 11.
It has been asserted that burnout-a condition ascribed to unresolvable job stress-should not be mistaken for a depressive syndrome. In this confirmatory factor analytic study, the validity of this assertion was examined.
Five samples of employed individuals, recruited in Switzerland and France, were mobilized for this study (N = 3,113). Burnout symptoms were assessed with the Shirom-Melamed Burnout Measure, the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)-General Survey, and the MBI for Educators. Depressive symptoms were measured with the PHQ-9.
In all five samples, the latent factors pertaining to burnout's components correlated on average more highly with the latent Depression factor than with each other, even with fatigue-related items removed from the PHQ-9. Second-order factor analyses indicated that the latent Depression factor and the latent factors pertaining to burnout's components were reflective of the same overarching factor.
This study suggests that the burnout-depression distinction is artificial.
有人断言， burnout——一种归因于无法解决的工作压力的状态——不应被误认为是抑郁综合征。在这项验证性因素分析研究中，检验了这一断言的有效性。
本研究动员了瑞士和法国的五组在职人员（N=3113）参与。使用 Shirom-Melamed 倦怠量表、Maslach 倦怠量表（MBI）-一般调查和 MBI 教育者量表评估倦怠症状。使用 PHQ-9 测量抑郁症状。
在所有五个样本中，倦怠各组成部分的潜在因素与潜在的抑郁因素平均相关度更高，即使 PHQ-9 中去除了与疲劳相关的项目。二阶因素分析表明，潜在的抑郁因素和倦怠各组成部分的潜在因素反映了相同的总体因素。
本研究表明，倦怠-抑郁的区别是人为的。
