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JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages 43-57Publisher
EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING FOUNDATION-AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/1076-8998.13.1.43
Keywords
obesity; burnout; prospective design; gender difference; depression
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The authors prospectively tested the hypothesis that obesity predicts burnout and the reverse-causation hypothesis that burnout predicts obesity. Respondents were 724 men and 340 women, apparently healthy employees, who underwent routine periodic health examinations at 2 points of time about 18 months apart. Obesity was assessed by body mass index, waist-hip ratio, and waist circumference. In regression analyses, done separately for men and women, the authors controlled for depressive symptomatology, sport activity, and Time I levels of the criterion. The hypothesis that burnout predicts obesity was not supported. The authors found that Time I measures of obesity predicted reductions rather than the hypothesized elevations of Time 2 burnout levels. The authors also found that for male respondents with relatively higher levels of Time 1 burnout, the higher their level of Time I obesity measure, the lower their level of T2 burnout.
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