Cortisol levels, burnout and engagement in university employees

dc.contributor.authorOrtiz-Valdés, Juan A.
dc.contributor.authorVega-Michel, Claudia
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-06T18:20:00Z
dc.date.available2015-07-06T18:20:00Z
dc.date.issued2009-11
dc.descriptionPeople’s psychological relationship with work can be conceptualized as a continuum ranging from negative experiences of professional burnout to positive experiences, known as engagement. A retrospective ex post facto study was carried out for the purpose of exploring and measuring the degree of relation of professional burnout and job engagement to cortisol levels and the filing of claims for medical costs among university employees. One hundred ninety-nine subjects participated. A weak positive relation was found between the factor Emotional Exhaustion and cortisol levels, as well as a negative relationship between health symptoms and cortisol levels. No differences in burnout and cortisol levels were found between subjects who put in claims for health services and those who do not, or in health service claims when paired with the factors of professional burnout and cortisol levels. We conclude that low levels of cortisol could be related to engagement levels, and are related to low levels of professional burnout. We suggest that organization management should pay attention not just to administrative issues, but also to factors of organizational structure, the redesign of substantive activities, and the development of competencies for life development, as a way of contributing to overall organizational effectivenesses
dc.description.sponsorshipITESO, A.C.es
dc.identifier.citationOrtiz-Valdés, J.A. y Vega-Michel, C. (2009). Cortisol levels, burnout and engagement in university employees. Journal of Behavior, Health & Social Issues 1(2), pp.45-51.es
dc.identifier.issn2007-0772
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11117/2238
dc.language.isoenges
dc.publisherUNAMes
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal of Behavior, Health & Social Issues;1(2)
dc.rights.urihttp://quijote.biblio.iteso.mx/licencias/CC-BY-NC-2.5-MX.pdfes
dc.subjectCortisoles
dc.subjectBurnoutes
dc.subjectUse of Health Serviceses
dc.subjectUniversity Employeeses
dc.subjectEstréses
dc.subjectTrabajadores Universitarioses
dc.subjectUso de Servicios de Saludes
dc.titleCortisol levels, burnout and engagement in university employeeses
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees
rei.peerreviewedYeses
rei.revisorJournal of Behavior, Health & Social Issues

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