Academic Librarian Burnout: A Survey Using the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI)

Wood, Barbara; Guimaraes, Ana B.; Holm, Christina; Hayes, Sherrill W.; Brooks, Kyle R.

doi:10.1080/01930826.2020.1729622

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“…The sudden onset of the COVID-19 restrictions enacted across the world meant significant shifts occurred to people's ordinary working and home life (Rigotti, De Cuyper, & Sekiguchi, 2020). The negative impact of chronic workplace stress and resulting burnout on both employees and their organizations is well-documented especially in helping professions, like nursing, psychology, teaching, social work, and even librarianship (Gray & Muramatsu, 2011;Kristensen, Borritz, Villadsen, & Christensen, 2005;Maslach & Jackson, 1984;Maslach & Leiter, 2016;Shirom, Nirel, & Vinokur, 2010;Wood, Guimaraes, Holm, Hayes, & Brooks, 2020).…”

Section: Work-related Stress and Burnoutmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Burnout is a psychological syndrome that is the result of long-term, job-specific, physical and emotional exhaustion from interpersonal stress that results in detachment, cynicism, reduced feelings of efficacy and accomplishment and may have significant impacts on job performance and satisfaction (Kristensen, Borritz, Villadsen, & Christensen, 2005;Maslach & Leiter, 2016). Burnout has been studied extensively in health care and human service occupations, since these tend to require both significant professional skill and high degrees of interaction with people (Gray & Muramatsu, 2011;Kristensen, Borritz, Villadsen, & Christensen, 2005;Maslach & Jackson, 1984;Maslach & Leiter, 2016;Wood, Guimaraes, Holm, Hayes, & Brooks, 2020). Sora and colleagues (2013) suggested that individual feelings of job insecurity can become contagious within an organization, especially one with a strong organizational culture, impede employee interactions and may lead to employee withdrawal, both of which are also symptoms of burnout.…”

Section: Work-related Stress and Burnoutmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Kristensen and colleagues (2005) developed the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) in order to provide a conceptually more consistent and statistically more valid and reliable measure of burnout that could be applied to a broader range of professions. Analyses of the CBI have demonstrated it to be a highly validated instrument with applications to a wide-range of professions (Ilić, Arandjelović, Jovanović, & Nešić, 2017;Kristensen, et al, 2005;Sestili, et al, 2018;Wood, Guimaraes, Holm, Hayes, & Brooks, 2020). The CBI breaks the concept of burnout down into 3 components: personal burnout (6 questions); work-related burnout (7 questions); and client-related burnout (6 questions).…”

Section: Burnout Inventorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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“I’m not Working from Home, I’m Living at Work”: Perceived Stress and Work-Related Burnout before and during COVID-19

Hayes¹,

Jl²,

Ishmakhametov³

et al. 2020

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The purpose of the study was to better understand the relationships among stress, work-related burnout, and remote working brought on by social distancing efforts and stay at home orders put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors developed a questionnaire incorporating valid and reliable self-report stress and burnout measures (Perceived Stress Scale & Copenhagen Burnout Inventory), demographic, and work-related questions. The questions were used primarily to determine workers’ levels of stress before and during the pandemic, to assess potential burnout, and to establish the extent of their previous experience with remote work/telecommuting. The questionnaire was open from March 23rd to May 19th 2020 and distributed through a survey link on social media and by Qualtrics research services. Results from the analyses suggest that perceived stress did increase during the COVID-19 restrictions, especially for people that had limited experience working from home and were female. Individuals who worked from home before COVID-19 had higher levels of work-related burnout but did not differ based on gender or part-time work status. The results suggest that working from home may create more stress and result in more burnout, which challenges the current moves by some employers to make working from home a permanent arrangement. The authors believe that having research based on valid and reliable instruments will help employers and schools make better decisions about how to support those who can remain at home to avoid the potential for secondary outbreaks.

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Section: Work-related Stress and Burnoutmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Work-related Stress and Burnoutmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Burnout Inventorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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“I’m not Working from Home, I’m Living at Work”: Perceived Stress and Work-Related Burnout before and during COVID-19

Hayes¹,

Jl²,

Ishmakhametov³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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“…In our sample, the correlation of exhaustion and age was -.18, between distance (the same as cynicism) and age was -.17. Wood, Guimaraes, Holm, Hayes, and Brooks (2020), in a sample of 1,628 academic librarians employed within the United States, found that age was related to burnout significantly and negatively. However, Martini, Viotti, Converso, Battaglia, and Loera (2019), in a sample of 167 Italian public library workers, found that controlling for job demands, job resources, and some demographic variables age was linked to exhaustion positively while the link between age and cynicism was insignificant.…”

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Age as a Predictor of Burnout in Russian Public Librarians

Kolachev

Новиков

2020

EBLIP

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Objective – Increasing life expectancy leads to an increase in the mean age of the workforce. The aging workforce implies new challenges for management and human resources. Existing findings on relations between age and burnout are controversial and scarce. Also, the problem of burnout amongst library workers in Russia has received little attention from researchers. Methods – The studied sample consisted of 620 public librarians from 166 public libraries of different regions (the Moscow region, Yaroslavl, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Astrakhan, and Republic of Buryatia) of the Russian Federation, who completed a self-reported online survey. For measuring burnout, a new Burnout Assessment Tool was implemented. To examine the associations of interest, we used structural equation modeling with a group correction approach. In addition, library location, general self-efficacy, and length of employment at the current workplace were utilized as predictors. All statistical analysis was performed in R. Results – Findings confirmed the hypotheses partially and revealed negative links between exhaustion, mental distance, and cognitive control and age, while reduced emotional control did not relate to age. Urban librarians tended to demonstrate higher levels of mental distance and had more significant problems with emotional regulation than their rural counterparts. Also, the non-Moscow region librarians did not demonstrate correlations between age and reduced cognitive control. Moreover, they showed a positive link between age and reduced emotional control. Conclusion – The current paper confirmed some previous results on the negative relations between burnout symptoms and chronological age. The results suggest the existence of higher risks of burnout for younger library workers. Potential mechanisms underlying the resilience of older workers are discussed.

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“…Oyewole and Popoola (2013) found that academic librarians who experience severe job stress are “at risk for burnout, a syndrome of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and loss of sense of personal accomplishment which affects their job performance” (p. 20). Wood et al (2020) reported on librarian burnout using the Copenhagen Burnout inventory and their data “indicates that almost 50% of academic librarians are experiencing work-related burnout.”…”

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Occupational stress measures of tenure-track librarians

Cameron¹,

Pierce

Conroy

2020

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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This study sought to measure occupational stress levels of tenure eligible academic librarians quantitatively and explores the connections between occupational stress and institutional supports. Researchers administered the Job Stress Survey™ to 109 academic librarians in tenure eligible positions. These data were then analyzed and correlated with participants’ responses in an earlier study which measured tenure confidence and access to institutional supports. Findings showed that lack of support contributes to stress more than the pressures of the job and supports that increase librarians’ confidence do not always decrease stress.

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Academic Librarian Burnout: A Survey Using the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI)

Cited by 35 publications

References 36 publications

“I’m not Working from Home, I’m Living at Work”: Perceived Stress and Work-Related Burnout before and during COVID-19

“I’m not Working from Home, I’m Living at Work”: Perceived Stress and Work-Related Burnout before and during COVID-19

Age as a Predictor of Burnout in Russian Public Librarians

Occupational stress measures of tenure-track librarians

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