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Burnout seems not to be associated with this proxy measure of allostatic load. The mediating physiological mechanisms between burnout and objective physical health remain to be elucidated.

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Burnout has been associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease. This relationship may be mediated by a stress‐related disruption in cardiac autonomic activity. The aim of the present study was to assess cardiac autonomic activity (sympathetic and parasympathetic) during a working day in burned out managers. Thirty burned out, 29 healthy control and 29 engaged managers (a psychologically contrasting group) were identified using the Maslach Burnout Inventory‐General Survey (MBI‐GS) and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES). Twenty‐four‐hour ambulatory measurements were carried out during a regular workday and the subsequent night. Pre‐ejection period (PEP) and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) were used as measures of cardiac sympathetic and parasympathetic activity, respectively. Contrary to expectations, the burned out, engaged and control groups did not differ in cardiac sympathetic and cardiac parasympathetic activity, or heart rate. Thus, burnout does not seem to be associated with an unfavourable cardiac autonomic profile. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Het handboek Methoden en technieken van onderzoek in de psychologie handelt over verschillende methoden en technieken van empirisch onderzoek in de psychologie. Meer concreet gaat het om dataverzamelingsmethoden, het meten van psychologische variabelen, betrouwbaarheids- en validiteitsanalyse, variantie- en covariantieanalyse, regressieanalyse en factoranalyse. De auteur legt tevens uit hoe een aantal SPSS-procedures hierbij aangestuurd moeten worden. De theorie wordt ondersteund door meer dan 200 opgaven, waaronder 10 computeropgaven met bijgeleverde datasets.