Job Burnout Recovery

The focus of my academic research deals with how people recover from job burnout. So far, the data suggests that the burnout recovery experience involves:

• a recovery process,
• an existential shift,
• a sense of empowerment,
• increase in self-referencing, and
• relationship change.

Findings of this research imply that the chronic distress that is experienced through burnout can turn into a positive precursor for growth. This research also suggests that an experience of increased efficacy is integral to job burnout recovery.

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