Assessment of the Efficiency of Proactive Behavior Training and Individual Psychotherapy Among Persons With Different Degrees of Professional Burnout

The aim of the study is to assess the effectiveness of proactive behavior training and individual psychotherapy among groups with low/medium and high/extremely high level of professional burnout (PB). Methods. The sample consisted of 146 individuals (100 women and 46 men) who underwent proactive behavior training in Saint Petersburg, Tver, Moscow and Vladivostok. Group I included 73 persons with low or medium PB, 20 of them had an additional course of individual positive dynamic psychotherapy; Group II consisted of 73 individuals with high or extremely high PB, 25 of them had additional course of individual positive dynamic psychotherapy. Methods: Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI); Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI); Proactive Coping Inventory (PCI); and LHC Conflict. Mann-Whitney test was used to compare average values. Asociations between categorical variables was searched using Pearson x2 test. Associations between binary outcome and three independent variables were studied using multivariable logistic regression. Results: The positive impact of proactive behavior training on the individual typological characteristics of the personality was revealed; moreover, in the group of people with a high/extremely high level of PB compared with subjects with a low/medium level, statistically significant improvements were observed in the following parameters as "Strategic planning" (p = 0.019), "Search for emotional support" (p = 0.016), "Emotional exhaustion" (p = 0.081), "Depersonalization" (p = 0.001) and "Reduction of professional achievements" (p = 0.002). Conclusion: The course of individual positive dynamic psychotherapy in addition to proactive behavior training has a positive effect on the "Reflexive Overcoming", "Strategic Planning", "Search for Emotional Support", and negative effect on the "Depersonalization", and "Reduction of Personal Achievements

Burnout · Depersonalization · Emotional exhaustion · Logistic regression · Multilevel model · Psychotherapist · Clinical Psychology · Health, psychology, and well-being · Medicine · Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology

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  Lisa G Aspinwall, Shelley E Taylor•Psychological Bulletin•1997

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