Publications by authors named "Tim Theeboom"
Coaching is a systematic and goal-oriented one-on-one intervention by a coach aimed to guide clients in their professional and personal development. Previous research on coaching has demonstrated effects on a number of positive outcomes, including well-being and performance, yet little is known about the processes that underlie these outcomes, such as the type of questions coaches use. Here, we focus on three different types of coaching questions, and aim to uncover their immediate and sustained effects for affect, self-efficacy, and goal-directed outcomes, using a between-subjects experiment.
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- Physician burn-out is becoming a bigger problem, even for medical students and residents, affecting their health and patient care.
- The study involved doctors receiving coaching to help reduce their burn-out symptoms and improve their personal skills, while another group did not get any coaching.
- Results showed that those who received coaching felt less exhausted and more compassionate, while the group without coaching did not see any improvement.
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- The study examines the high rates of burnout among medical residents and specialists to identify the job demands, resources, and personal traits influencing work engagement and burnout levels.
- Conducted through surveys in several Dutch hospitals, the research involved 124 residents and 69 specialists, focusing on various medical fields and utilizing statistical analyses to interpret the data.
- Results indicate that personal resources, like psychological flexibility and colleague support, play crucial roles in mitigating burnout and enhancing work engagement, with each group experiencing different influences from these resources.
Economic pressures on companies, technological developments, and less stable career paths pose potential threats to the well-being of employees (e.g., stress, burn-out) and require constant adaptation.
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