“…Although burnout is comprised of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, which is described as “interpersonal distancing and lack of connectedness with one’s coworkers and clients,” and diminished personal accomplishment, which was described as “a negative evaluation of the self” in Maslach’s model ([ 54 ], p. 160), emotional exhaustion is considered the core component of burnout [ 55 ]. Historically, emotional exhaustion has been the focus of workplace-burnout studies because it leads to lower job satisfaction [ 56 ], higher turnover [ 57 , 58 , 59 ], less organizational citizenship behavior [ 60 , 61 ], and poorer job performance [ 62 ]. In particular, the emotional exhaustion of service employees is a fundamental component in generating employees’ disruptive behaviors toward their customers and organization [ 6 , 55 ].…”