Differentiating burnout from depression: Personality matters!

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue AUG, 2015, Pages

  Melchers, Martin Christoph ^a   Plieger, Thomas ^a   Meermann, Rolf ^b   Reuter, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b AHG Psychosomatic Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

BDI 2; Burnout; Depression; MBI GS; Path analyses; TCI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BURNOUT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HARM REDUCTION; HUMAN; JOB STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASLACH BURNOUT INVENTORY GENERAL; PERSONALITY; PROFESSIONALISM; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF TRANSCENDENCE; TEMPERAMENT AND CHARACTER INVENTORY; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84940566411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00113     Document Type: Article

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