Burnout

State characterized by perceived mental, emotional and/or physical exhaustion, a distant attitude towards one’s job, and perceived reduced performance capacities, resulting from prolonged exposure to specific kinds of mental stress (3.1.1) Note 1 to entry: The perceived mental, emotional, and/or physical exhaustion expresses itself in an enduring feeling of overload, irritability, tension and lack of drive. Note 2 to entry: Specific conditions leading to burnout are those which in the short term result in fatigue, satiation, and/or monotony. Note 3 to entry: A distant attitude towards one’s job and job content within service-oriented tasks (e.g. nursing, jobs in call centres, gastronomy) is called depersonalization and expresses itself, for example, in reacting with an emotionless, blunted and cynical attitude towards others. Note 4 to entry: “Perceived reduced performance capacity” is a tendency to evaluate one’s own performance ability negatively and to have insufficient coping strategies. It is characterized by a lack of, or a reduced, job-related self-esteem. Note 5 to entry: There might be other impairing effects with long-term potential which are not listed in this document because they are otherwise already defined and/or the causal relations to the eliciting conditions are not sufficiently well established.