Key result
High burnout in teachers was associated with worse mood, higher perceived stress, higher systolic blood pressure, and lower salivary cortisol levels at the beginning of the work day.
Observational
Burnout screening in teachers may merit consideration; leaves open whether interventions alter cardiovascular or cortisol markers.
Burnout syndrome is an important psychosocial risk in the job context, especially in professions with a strong social interaction, as in the case of teaching. This study analyses the role of burnout in the psychophysiological responses to a work day in teachers. High burnout was related to worse mood, and higher perceived stress throughout the work day. Moreover, burnout is positively related to systolic blood pressure and negatively related to salivary cortisol levels at the beginning of the work day. Higher scores of burnout in teachers are also related to lower heart rate in the middle of the work day. The psychophysiological responses to a work day are specifically associated with the different burnout subscales (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and personal accomplishment). Men presented higher diastolic blood pressure than women at the beginning and the middle of the work day. Burnout could induce an alteration in mood together with a dysregulation of the cardiovascular activity and the hypothalamo‐pituitary‐adrenocortical axis functioning in response to a work day in teachers. Moreover, our results offer different burnout‐dependent patterns of relationships between psychological, cardiovascular and cortisol responses, and they suggest that gender plays a moderator role in the cardiovascular response to a work day.
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Moya‐Albiol et al. (2010) conducted an observational in Burnout. High burnout was evaluated on Psychophysiological responses (mood, perceived stress, blood pressure, salivary cortisol, heart rate). High burnout in teachers was associated with worse mood, higher perceived stress, higher systolic blood pressure, and lower salivary cortisol levels at the beginning of the work day.
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