Publications and Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2019
Abstract
Reducing depression to its clinical stage—to a nosological category—is unwarranted when examining the burnout-depression distinction. Recent factor analytic studies of burnout and depression measures indicate that the discriminant validity of the burnout construct is not satisfactory. Exhaustion—the core and only consensual characteristic of burnout—has been repeatedly found to correlate more strongly with depression (including anhedonia and depressed mood) than with the two other components of burnout (cynicism and professional inefficacy).
Comments
This work was originally published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, available at doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18091026