Association of adaptive and maladaptive narcissism with personal burnout: findings from a cross-sectional study

Burnout is associated with poor mental and physical functioning and high costs for societies. Personality attributes may critically increase the risk of personal burnout. We specifically examined whether narcissism associates with personal burnout in a working population. We studied n=1,461 employee...

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Published in:Industrial Health 2017/05/31, Vol.55(3), pp.233-242
Main Authors: KÄNEL, Roland VON, HERR, Raphael Manfred, Annelies Elizabeth Maria VAN VIANEN, SCHMIDT, Burkhard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Burn out (Psychology)
Burnout
Cross-sectional studies
Fatigue
Health aspects
Leadership
Mental depression
Narcissism
Occupational health
Original
Personality
Population studies
Proletariat
Psychiatric disorders
Psychological aspects
Psychosocial stress
Regression analysis
Sleep
Sleep disorders
Work environment
Work environments
Working class
Working class in television
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Summary:Burnout is associated with poor mental and physical functioning and high costs for societies. Personality attributes may critically increase the risk of personal burnout. We specifically examined whether narcissism associates with personal burnout in a working population. We studied n=1,461 employees (mean age 41.3 ± 9.4 yr, 52% men) drawn from a random sample of a pharmaceutical company in Germany. All participants completed the personal burnout subscale of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory and the Narcissistic Personality Inventory to assess maladaptive (entitlement/exploitativeness) and adaptive (leadership/authority) narcissism. In linear regression analysis, when mutually adjusting for the maladaptive and adaptive narcissism scales, higher adaptive narcissism was associated with lower burnout scores (ß=-0.04, p
ISSN:0019-8366
1880-8026
DOI:10.2486/indhealth.2016-0136