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Record W122138524

Effect of Sex on Perceived Support and Burnout in University Students.

2006· article· en· W122138524 on OpenAlexaffabout
Amanda C. Weckwerth, Deborah M. Flynn

Bibliographic record

VenueCollege student journal · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHealthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
Canadian institutionsNipissing University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDepersonalizationBurnoutPsychologyEmotional exhaustionSocial supportAllianceModerationHuman servicesClinical psychologyDevelopmental psychologySocial psychology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Sex differences in the experience of social support and frequency of burnout were examined in university students from a small Northern Ontario University. An altered version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS) (Maslach & Jackson, 1996) termed the AMBI-HSS, and the Social Provisions Scale (SPS) (Cutrona & Russell, 1987) were used to examine the extent to which students' social relationships provided them with various dimensions of social support and, to assess the variety and frequency of burnout experienced by students'. Potential measures of school related stress or burnout included: Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization and Personal Accomplishment. The potential moderator of stress in this study was social support (Reliable Alliance, Opportunity for Nurturance, Guidance, Attachment, Social Integration, and Reassurance of Worth). Sex differences were found for variety of support received, with women scoring significantly higher than males on support indices of Reliable Alliance, Attachment and Guidance. Males scored significantly higher than females on the burnout index of Depersonalization and females reported lower levels of Personal Accomplishment than males. ********** Over the past few decades, literature on stress and the strategies which individual's can use to ameliorate the potentially deleterious effects of stress has increased considerably (e.g., Cohen & Hoberman, 1983; Cohen & Wills, 1985; Towbes & Cohen, 1996; Hudd, Dumlao, Erdmann-Sager, Murray, Phan, Soukas and Yokozuna, 2000). Stress, is often referred to as any emotional experience that is negative, and is accompanied by biochemical, physiological, cognitive, and behavioural changes that predictable by nature, and are directed either toward adapting to the effects of the stressful event or altering the stressful event itself (Taylor, 1999). Certain situations or events that have the potential to affect health outcomes, called stressors, are more likely than others to be perceived as stressful (Barling, 1990). These include events that are typically thought to be negative, uncontrollable, characterized by ambiguity, and are overwhelming in their cumulative impact, or that involve tasks central to the individual's life (Taylor, 1995). Evaluations of stressors often vary from person to person, and as Frazier & Schauben (1994) note, are perceived much differently among individuals. As stated by Lazarus & Folkman (1984), how an individual appraises a potentially stressful event may influence how he or she reacts to the stress. If an event is appraised negatively, the resulting stress may lead to potentially deleterious physical, mental, and social consequences unless effective coping mechanisms (i.e., social support) are utilized (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984). Just as the perception of stress may differ among people, so too do the methods one utilizes for dealing with that stress. There is a great deal of evidence that social support may reduce the consequences of stressful circumstances. Social support is commonly defined by theorists as, information from other people that one is loved or cared for, esteemed and valued, and part of a network of communication and mutual obligation (Taylor, 1999 p. 222). Such forms of social support may come from co-workers, supervisors, as well as friends and family (Gloria & Ho, 2003; Himle & Jayaratne, 1991; Cohen & Syme, 1985). Similarly, an individual may possess coping mechanisms in the form of leisure time, adopting an optimistic lookout, religion, physical or cognitive exercises, which may help to reduce the effects of stress (Iwasaki, 2001; Misra & McKean, West, & Russo, 2000; Lazarus & Folkman, 1984). Much research to date on the negative effects of stress and the utilization of support resources, has centered upon the adult work force population (e.g., Holman & Wall, 2002; Mallinckrodt & Bennet, 1992; Himle & Jayaratne, 1991). …

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Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.017

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.400
Teacher spread0.380 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2006
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