Can empathy lead to emotional exhaustion in teachers? The mediating role of emotional labor

Objectives: The present study was designed to examine the links between empathy, emotional labor (both surface and deep acting), and emotional exhaustion as well as determine if emotional labor mediates the relationship between empathy and emotional exhaustion in teachers. It was assumed that emotional labor can take two opposite directions (positive mood induction and negative mood induction). Thus, the additional aim of the study was to analyze the mediating role of mood regulation strategies in the relationship between empathy and emotional exhaustion. Materials and Methods: A sample of 168 teachers from Łódź and its surroundings completed a set of questionnaires: Emotional Labor Scale; Mood Regulation Scales, Maslach Burnout Inventory, and Empathic Sensitivity Scale. Results: The results provided mixed support for the hypotheses indicating that both types of emotional labor, negative mood induction and emotional exhaustion were positively intercorrelated. Moreover, deep acting was a significant mediator in the relationship between empathy and emotional exhaustion. The analyzed link was also mediated by negative mood induction, whereas positive mood induction did not emerge as a significant mediator. Conclusions: The study provided insight into the role of empathy and emotional labor in the development of teacher burnout. It also confirmed that deep acting and negative mood induction mediate the relationship between empathy and emotional exhaustion in teachers

Mensen met een roeping:een zegen of een zorg in de hulpverlening?

Mensen met een roeping ervaren hun werk als zinvol. Roeping leidt tot een verhoogde motivatie voor het werk en zou daardoor met minder emotionele uitputting kunnen samenhangen. Ook het gerelateerde begrip spiritualiteit zou negatief samenhangen met emotionele uitputting. Roeping zou ook de relatie tussen emotionele belasting en uitputting kunnen modereren. Bij 235 medewerkers in de geestelijke gezondheidszorg werd dit onderzocht. Spiritualiteit overlapte slechts in geringe mate met roeping. Verder bleek er een positieve samenhang te zijn tussen emotionele belasting en emotionele uitputting en een negatieve samenhang tussen roeping en emotionele uitputting. Roeping verklaarde vier procent van de variantie in emotionele uitputting, maar modereerde de relatie tussen emotionele belasting en emotionele uitputting niet. Eén aspect van spiritualiteit, verbondenheid met ‘het zelf’, hing ook negatief samen met emotionele uitputting. Mensen met een roeping zijn dus niet op een speciale manier beschermd tegen emotionele belasting, maar hebben wel minder last van emotionele uitputting

Marital and sexual satisfaction in patients with RA and their spouses

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Emotion work and emotional exhaustion in teachers: The job and individual perspective

Contains fulltext : Repository-Emotion-work-EduStudies-Naring-Vlerick-VandeVen.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)Teaching requires much emotion work which takes its toll on teachers. Emotion work is usually studied from one of two perspectives, a job or an individual perspective. In this study, we assessed the relative importance of these two perspectives in predicting emotional exhaustion. More than 200 teachers completed a questionnaire comprising the DISQ (Demand‐Induced Strain Compensation Questionnaire), the Dutch Questionnaire on Emotional Labour (D‐QEL), and the UBOS (Utrechtse Burnout Schaal [Utrecht Burnout Scale]). In line with previous studies, our findings indicated that emotional exhaustion is positively associated with emotional job demands and surface acting. The relative importance of the two operationalisations of emotion work was assessed by comparing the results of two regression analyses. Whereas the model with job demands explained 18% of the variance, the model with emotional labour explained only 5%. In understanding what might contribute to emotional exhaustion in teachers, the emotional job demands might be much more important than the self‐regulation perspective that is measured with emotional labour.10 p

Motor and sensory dissociative phenomena with induced catalepsy

Contains fulltext : 55645.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)The purpose of this study was to investigate dissociative symptoms that may occur as an epiphenomenon of tactile-induced catalepsy. In 15 participants, catalepsy was induced in the right arm, and dissociative symptoms were evaluated using a self-report questionnaire. In comparison with the left, noncataleptic arm, the right cataleptic arm was perceived differently. In addition to increased rigidity, the cataleptic arm was characterized by the presence of paresthesias, a decreased perception of sense and a decreased awareness of the arm. Moreover, the self-reported changes in perception were significantly correlated to the hypnotically induced arm-immobilization part of the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale. In conclusion, catalepsy induction elicits a variety of dissociative symptoms and provides a useful research paradigm for the study of motor-perceptual dissociative phenomena