An examination of the roles of career uncertainty, flexibility, and control in predicting emotional exhaustion

The present study employs an uncertainty framework to develop a career stress model in which career control mediates the effects of career stressors on emotional exhaustion. This model is tested through the use of structural equation modeling with data obtained from 204 government workers. Results indicate that a model which includes career control as a mediator of the effects of career flexibility and dependence on emotional exhaustion demonstrates a better fit with the data than a nested model in which job context factors, the traditional predictors of emotional exhaustion, solely predict emotional exhaustion. (C) 2001 Academic Press.