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Fear of Relationship Loss: Attachment Style as a Vulnerability Factor in Job Burnout


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Comparison of attachment style mean scores (secure, preoccupied, avoidant and dismissing) between burnout risk groups (relaxed, challenged, wornout and burnout).
Comparison of attachment style mean scores (secure, preoccupied, avoidant and dismissing) between burnout risk groups (relaxed, challenged, wornout and burnout).

Relative influence of predictors on the functions’ values (standardised coefficients) and the correlation between the “ASTYLES” variables and functions (structural matrix).

Standardised coefficientsFunctionsStructural matrixFunctions
123123
Secure style−0.42−0.920.15−0.380.92*−0.05
Preoccupied style0.880.35−0.610.340.31−0.85*
Avoidant style0.940.400.470.570.120.78*
Dismissing style−0.030.060.27−0.00−0.010.41*

Descriptive statistics (mean scores and standard deviations) for performance-based self-esteem, workaholism and burnout by burnout risk group (ABSRi), and the results of the one-way analysis of variance.

MMF df(3.3389)p
Performance-based self-esteemRelaxed19.165.601,489.780.00**
Challenged41.5510.50
Wornout20.494.47
Burnout43.829.11
WorkaholismRelaxed39.248.91712.450.00**
Challenged63.3717.46
Wornout44.507.22
Burnout67.4713.75
BurnoutRelaxed.03.081,686.040.00**
Challenged.03.02
Wornout.81.29
Burnout1.29.60

Comparison of the percentage of participants with secure and insecure attachment styles (ASTYLES variable) between burnout risk groups (ABSRi variable).

Attachment styles (ASTYLES)
SecurePreoccupiedAvoidantDismissing
Burnout risk groupsRelaxedN4465634296
%53.6%6.7%4.1%35.6%
ChallengedN534910254
%20.5%19.0%39.5%20.9%
WornoutN193481572
%58.8%14.6%4.6%22.0%
BurnoutN3029548889
%3.3%32.7%54.1%9.9%

Testing the equality of centroids by burnout class (ABSCl).

Functions testedWilks’s lambdaχ2dfp
1 / 30.124,921.07120.00**
2 / 30.80507.6460.00**
30.9511.5320.00**

Descriptive statistics for the testing results (mean scores and standard deviations).

VariableMSD
Burnout (ABSRa)0.650.72
Performance-based self-esteem (PBS)34.2114.09
Workaholism (WORKHL)56.5917.98
Secure style (SEC-AS)4.122.19
Preoccupied style (PRE-AS)3.292.05
Avoidant style (AVO-AS)3.632.24
Dismissing style (DIS-AS)3.592.01

Frequencies, descriptive statistics and differences in test scores by category “low level” and “high level” for burnout, performance-based self-esteem and workaholism.

NMSDtt-test dfp
ABSCatLow1,1300.060.11−66.191778.040.00**
High1,1901.220.58
PBSCatLow4311.690.41−60.15120.500.00**
High2,6943.740.66
WORKCatLow33537.847.28−41.21133.5210.00**
High1,22567.8512.77

Summary of one-way repeated measures analysis of variance: attachment style mean score (ASTYLES variable) by group (relaxed, challenged, wornout and burnout; (ABSRi variable).

Variability sourceSSdfMSFp
Between individuals
   Cross section464.6323154.87756.2150.00**
   Error6,380.7442,3162.755
Within individuals
   ASTYLES1,482.6842.627564.354108.0280.00**
   ASTYLES*ABSRi3321.3417.882421.40080.6640.00**
   Error31,787.1106,084.6545.224

Burnout risk groups.

Burnout riskPerformance-based self-esteem and/or workaholism
LowHigh
LowRelaxedChallenged
HighWornoutBurnout

Percentages of appropriately classified members of individual burnout risk groups.

Predicted group members
RelaxedChallengedWornoutBurnout
Original group membersRelaxed86.3%4.1%9.6%0.0
Challenged0.091.1%8.9%0.0
Wornout0.010.7%89.3%0.0
Burnout0.015.9%2.7%81.5%

Participant classification into burnout risk groups (ABSRi variable).

Low ABSCatHigh ABSCat
Low PBSCat and WORKCaRelaxedWornout
832 (35.9%)328 (14.1%)
High PBSCat and WORKCatChallengedBurnout
258 (11.1%)902 (38.9%)
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Medicine, Clinical Medicine, Hygiene and Environmental Medicine