1. The contemporary context of job burnout -- 2. Burnout and health -- 3. Individual strategies to prevent burnout -- 4. The good and bad of working relationships : implications for burnout -- 5. Daily burnout experiences : critical events and measurement challenges -- 6. The influence of...

Whereas burnout refers to a state of exhaustion and cynicism toward work, engagement is defined as a positive motivational state of vigor, dedication, and absorption. In this article, we discuss the main definitions and conceptualizations of both concepts used in the literature. In addition, we...

Subjective Well-Being (SWB) refers to how a person evaluates his or her life ( Diener, Sandvik, & Pavot, 1991 ). This appraisal may take the form of cognitions – when a person makes a conscious evaluative judgment about his or her satisfaction with (working) life; or take the form of affect,...