Department of Education Sciences, Universidad de La Rioja. C/La Cigüeña, 60, 26004 Logroño, Spain.
Department of Economics and Business, Universidad de La Rioja. C/La Cigüeña, 60, 26004 Logroño, Spain.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Dec 22;18(1):3. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18010003.
Burnout is a mental disorder that leads to difficulties for the entrepreneur in controlling his or her personal and professional life. The most common consequences of entrepreneurial burnout include the subject experiencing low motivation, low organizational commitment, loss of energy, demoralization in connection with their work, poor quality of work, feeling of failure, and the perception that his or her company is performing poorly. We used a sample of 157 Spanish entrepreneurs selected at random from the Iberian Balance Sheet Analysis System database. We employed the Spanish version of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire to measure mentalizing and the Spanish version of the Maslach-Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS) to measure burnout. This research showed that entrepreneurial burnout could be avoided in part if the entrepreneur achieved a good capacity for mentalizing. Hypomentalizing contributed to explaining entrepreneurs' levels of professional efficacy, cynicism, and emotional exhaustion. In contrast, the explanatory power of hypermentalizing was not significant for any of the dimensions of burnout. This study provides new evidence of burnout in entrepreneurs; a professional group with an important economic, politic, and social role has been little studied.
burnout 是一种精神障碍，导致企业家在控制个人和职业生活方面出现困难。企业家 burnout 的最常见后果包括：主体体验到低动力、低组织承诺、能量损失、与工作相关的士气低落、工作质量差、失败感以及认为自己的公司表现不佳。我们使用了从伊比利亚资产负债表分析系统数据库中随机选择的 157 名西班牙企业家的样本。我们使用了反映功能问卷的西班牙语版本来衡量心理化，以及马斯拉赫倦怠量表-一般调查（MBI-GS）的西班牙语版本来衡量倦怠。这项研究表明，如果企业家能够很好地进行心理化，部分可以避免企业家 burnout。低心理化有助于解释企业家的专业效能、犬儒主义和情绪耗竭水平。相比之下，超心理化对 burnout 的任何一个维度都没有显著的解释力。这项研究为企业家 burnout 提供了新的证据；一个具有重要经济、政治和社会作用的专业群体研究甚少。
