Vocation and avocation: Leisure activities correlate with professional engagement, but not burnout, in a cross-sectional survey of UK doctors

BMC Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  McManus, I C ^a   Jonvik, Hallgeir ^a   Richards, Peter ^b   Paice, Elisabeth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b London Deanery Stewart House ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c London Deanery   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; CAREER; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPERSONALIZATION; EMOTION; EMPATHY; EXHAUSTION; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; JOB SATISFACTION; LEISURE; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PHYSICIAN; SELF ESTEEM; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; STRESS; UNITED KINGDOM; VOCATION; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKLOAD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION; STATISTICS;

ADULT; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 80052106028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-9-100     Document Type: Article

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