Is Well-being Associated with Burnout? From a Multi-center Cross-sectional Study in Taiwan.

J Occup Environ Med

Department of Digital Mental Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.

Published: January 2025

AI Article Synopsis

  • The study examines the relationship between well-being and burnout among 242 Taiwanese workers, using validated assessment tools for both well-being and burnout.
  • Positive Emotion and Engagement were found to significantly correlate with personal burnout, while Positive Emotion, Engagement, and Relationships were linked to work-related burnout.
  • The findings suggest that improving workplace well-being can help reduce burnout, with different aspects of well-being influencing burnout in distinct ways.

Article Abstract

Objective: This article aims to explore the correlation between well-being and burnout and analyze other potential predictors of burnout.Methods: The analyses included 242 Taiwanese workers with a balanced gender ratio. Our study used the Chinese version of the Workplace PERMA (Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationship, Meaning, Accomplishment) -Profiler for well-being assessment and the Chinese version of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) to assess the participants' burnout condition. The results of the questionnaire were analyzed for their correlations using linear regression.Results: The well-being subscales significantly related to personal burnout were Positive Emotion and Engagement. For work-related burnout, the significantly associated well-being subscales were Positive Emotion, Engagement, and Relationships.Conclusions: The results indicate that workplace well-being indeed correlates significantly with burnout. Different domains of well-being play different roles in burnout of workers.

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