Burnout syndrome is a very well-known psychological process, which has been described and measured in psychological literature for the last 40 years. Nevertheless, this kind of psychological “experience” is still very important for both: researchers and practitioners: trainers, psychologists, coaches, managers - who are trying to support a given professional group with adequate preventive action, based on empirical studies. The purpose of the presented research was firstly to measure the perception and knowledge about the phenomenon of burnout among employers working in direct contact with patients, clients, students, pupils. The authors define burn out using the latest - organizational conception by Maslach and Leiter (2010, 2011, 2012) which explains it as the consequence of lacking fit between professional work (it’s environment) and an individual. The authors decided to measure the level of burnout using the LBQ Professional Burnout Questionnaire, which is an adaptation of the Italian Link Burnout Questionnaire. On the other hand, they constructed the original questionnaire designed to assess the probability of the phenomenon among Polish workers. The study was conducted in June and July 2017 as part of the transnational cooperation project (Time2Grow), which aims to develop an effective prevention tool for burnout dedicated to nurses, health care professionals, teachers and academic teachers/ researcher. To analyse achieved results two methods of econometric modelling were used – one of them to identify differences between employees in terms of main predictors of occupational burnout (logistic regression) and the next one was used to estimate the level of experienced burnout symptoms (classification method - two-steps cluster analysis). Presented results suggest that there were important practical conclusions. Every research group presented different burn – out predictors and significantly different level of experienced burn out. It should be underlined, that especially the higher education sector is lacking empirical research concerning wellbeing, organizational stress and burn out consequences. Additionally, there is a deep need to strengthen interpersonal skills and personal resources of researcher and academic teachers working. There are also significant differences between the knowledge and awareness of burn-out syndrome among researched groups.
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