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Global Health Econ Sustain Burnout syndrome in the public and private sectors

According to Maslach and Leiter (1997), burnout the individuals’ perception of their position in life and in
is an indicator of discordance between the identity of the context of culture to which they belong, in relation to
an individual and the things they are supposed to do. It their goals, expectations, standards, and concerns (Whoqol
represents the degradation and erosion of a person’s worth, Group., 1995). In the domain of health sciences, quality of
dignity, spirit, and will. Burnout has been described as life appears to be of paramount importance. In particular,
a disease that spreads and worsens over time, making it the use of quality of life assessment tools can lead to a
impossible for people to escape the downward spiral of significant improvement of treatment and care as well as
this behavior pattern. Indirectly linked to increased levels to the detection of problems that have huge implications
of burnout in the workplace are, more rarely, panic attacks on patients; therefore, quality of life is regarded as a good
(Rus et al., 2016), which are defined as intense experiences prognostic and predictive factor (Haraldstad et al., 2019).
of otherwise normal feelings of fear at inappropriate or At workplace, the quality of life and interrelationship
unexpected times. In 2016, Maslach & Leiter (2016) has among the colleagues should be held as important as work-
given burnout a new definition that it is a prolonged related aspects. Work provides an individual with a clear
reaction of the organism to chronic emotional and sense of identity, inner and personal growth, and a role in
interpersonal stressors at work. Burnout is categorized society. Quality of life, according to the “standard of living”
into three fundamental dimensions, that is, exhaustion, approach, refers to an individual’s ability to manipulate the
cynicism, and lack of a sense of accomplishment. The resources that they can utilize to control and shape their
phenomenon of exhaustion occurs with intense and long- living conditions. According to other approaches, the core
lasting emotions that lead to the weakening of a person’s of quality of life covers the underlying positive evaluations
emotional and physical resources. Workers who show signs and living conditions perceived by the individuals
of exhaustion show difficulty in replenishing energy, and themselves (Drobnič et al., 2010). Apart from that, job
this significantly affects their interaction with other people quality, evaluated based on five fundamental dimensions,
as well as their proper functioning in the environment. namely, skills, training, task discretion, work-life balance,
Workers who manifest cynicism are characterized by their and job security (Gallie, 2007), also appear to influence the
negativity, hostility, and intention to keep an extreme quality of life.
distance from colleagues at work, and they might also show A productive and healthy lifestyle is recognized to be
a lack of idealism. This phenomenon is primarily caused by directly related to high rates of satisfaction and quality
an individual’s reaction to the emotional overload and the of life. Studies have revealed that quality of life changes
exhaustion he/she experiences. with other aspects in life and work. More specifically,

The new concepts and definitions surrounding the term individuals not engaged in shift work presented lower rates
“mental resilience” have surfaced from different disciplines of quality of life and higher rates of unhappiness than shift
of sciences, such as psychology, sociology, psychiatry, workers, while it is noteworthy to mention that in the USA,
and endocrinology, from time to time. In general, mental medical students with a minority background were more
resilience refers to the ability of an individual to maintain likely to present a low rate of quality of life, along with a
or recover their mental health and to adapt to adversities low sense of personal success (Dyrbye et al., 2006; Anand
optimistically (Herman et al., 2011). Depending on the & Arora, 2009). Regarding the correlation of burnout with
definition, it can be perceived as either a dynamic process quality of life, a study found that a high life satisfaction is
or a characteristic possessed by the individual to face the correlated with moderate burnout among the executives of
adversities at a certain degree. Resilience is a multifaceted multinational companies (Anand & Arora, 2009), attesting
concept as it is greatly influenced by culture, social support, to the fact that burnout at work is inevitable if one aspires
family, and personal characteristics (Herrman et al., 2011; to maintain a high quality of life.
Laird et al., 2019). In the same vein, there is a wide range of The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship
factors that can influence mental resilience and the sense between burnout syndrome and the variables of mental
of adversity, and these factors are divided into personal, resilience and quality of life. The findings obtained from the
biological, and environmental categories. present research are meant to further enrich the existing
In a broader sense, quality of life is a multidimensional literature on the burnout syndrome. Any interpretations
and complex concept commonly applied to evaluate the derived from the research outcomes could lend themselves
social well-being and the status of individuals or groups useful in the formulation of measures targeted at preventing
(Felce & Perry., 1995), but it is recognized by many as a the burnout phenomenon among the susceptible
concept whose definition changes depending on the science groups, through awareness efforts and mobilization of
it serves (Haraldstad et al., 2019). According to the World organizations. In this study, we anticipate that burnout is
Health Organization (WHO), quality of life is defined as negatively correlated with quality of life and resilience.

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