Author(s)

Zirui Liu, Jipeng E

Corresponding Author

Zirui Liu

Abstract

Burnout is the state of physical and mental fatigue and exhaustion caused by an individual under the pressure of work. It was first proposed by Freudenberger in 1974. He believed that job burnout is one of the symptoms of emotional exhaustion. Subsequently, Maslach and others called the psychological syndrome caused by responding to long-term emotional and interpersonal stressors at work as job burnout. Generally speaking, job burnout is an extreme reaction when an individual fails to cope with work pressure. It is a state of exhaustion of emotions, attitudes, and behaviors that an individual produces under long-term stress experience. Nowadays, job burn-out is attracting widespread attention worldwide. Just at the end of May, the World Health Organization (WHO) has listed job burn-out/overwork (job burn-out) as an international disease. Classification (ICD-11) list and describe it as: long-term pressure from the workplace that has not been successfully handled. This study mainly deals with the relationship between the democratic party, including age and gender, and burnout dimensions among people in all kinds of occupations in mainland China. A questionnaire-based study was carried out from 282 out of 400, with a response rate of 70.5%. By statistical techniques like descriptive analysis and ANOVA, the result showed that there is no difference found regarding gender on the level of burnout but the difference of burnout level between single and married people is statistically significant. It also proposed implications, limitations, and recommendations for future research.

Keywords

Gender, Marital status, Job burnout