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Burnout, Perceived Stress, and Cortisol Responses to Awakening

From the Center for Psychobiological and Psychosomatic Research, University of Trier, Trier, Germany.

View larger version (13K): [in a new window]   Fig. 1. Mean salivary cortisol levels (± SE) on 3 days at 0, 15, 30, and 60 minutes after awakening. On day 3, an overnight low-dose dexamethasone suppression test (DST, 0.5 mg) was performed.

View larger version (19K): [in a new window]   Fig. 2. Scores of the two burnout groups for seven subscales of two burnout questionnaires. TBS = Teacher Burnout Scale; job sat = job satisfaction; prcvd ad spprt = perceived administrative support; cpng strs = coping with job-related stress; att stdnts = attitudes toward students; MBI = Maslach Burnout Inventory; emot exhst = emotional exhaustion; dpers = depersonalization; red eff = reduced efficiency. All group differences are significant with p < .05 (U test).

View larger version (17K): [in a new window]   Fig. 3. Mean salivary cortisol levels (± SE) for two groups of teachers with low and high burnout (BO) on 3 days at 0, 15, 30, and 60 minutes after awakening. On day 3, an overnight dexamethasone suppression test (0.5 mg) was performed.

View larger version (16K): [in a new window]   Fig. 4. Mean salivary cortisol levels after an overnight 0.5 mg DST for two groups of teachers with high and low perceived stress.