Professional Burnout and Preferred Styles of Psychological Defense Among Psychologists

Student: Simonova Zhanna

Educational Programme: Applied Social Psychology (Master)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2019

It is known that representatives of helping professions are exposed to a lot of stresses which often lead to job burnout. Despite the great interest in the study of burnout in professions such as educators and physicians, psychologists have received much less attention and, to our knowledge, have never been studied in the Russian context. This study was conducted to examine which styles of psychological defense leads to the minimization of professional burnout among psychologists of different specializations. The study involved 140 psychologists, they were divided into three groups: school psychologists, counseling psychologists and emergency psychologists.

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