Burnout and the Fine‐Tuning of Cognitive Resources |
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| Authors: | Thomas Kleinsorge Stefan Diestel Juliane Scheil Karen Niven |
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| Institution: | 1. Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund, Germany;2. Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK |
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| Abstract: | We examined the performance in a constant foreperiod task in two samples screened for either high or low scores on the core burnout dimension emotional exhaustion. In line with our expectations, participants scoring high on emotional exhaustion exhibited a specific deficit with respect to maintaining a high level of response readiness at longer foreperiods. This demonstration of a modulation of constant foreperiod performance by burnout adds to the growing body of evidence suggesting that exhaustion is related to deficits in basic cognitive mechanisms underlying the fine‐tuning of cognitive resources according to task demands. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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