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Efficacy/Personal Accomplishment, especially when compared to the relative near-consensus with the other two
MBI factors.
3c) High vs. Non-High MBI Scorers
Traditional notions of stress assume that the subjective experience of chronic workplace stress increases the
likelihood of developing related negative outcomes (see Sections 1a and 1b of Chapter III for a discussion of
various individual health and behavioural outcomes associated with chronic stress). For example, the INTERHeart
(Rosengren at al., 2004; Yusuf et al., 2004) and Whitehall-II (Marmot et al., 1991) studies are two of the most
influential studies which provide evidence for a strong link between psychosocial stress experience and negative
physical outcomes. Similarly however stress has been strongly associated with negative psychological outcomes,
such as the experience of depression (e.g. Siegrist, 2008; Chen et al., 2009), anxiety (e.g. Radat et al., 2008;
Melchior et al., 2007) and burnout (e.g. Lorenz, Benatti & Sabino, 2010; Hayes & Weathington, 2007).
One of the major findings of the survey element within this thesis agrees with authors such as Lorenz, Benatti
& Sabino (2010) and Hayes and Weathington (2007) in indicating that those respondents who were experiencing
high levels of burnout also experienced significantly increased levels of psychosocial stressors in the form of
hazards, as measured via the MSIT. While MSIT results in combination with stress-related outcomes have rarely
been disseminated in academic journal articles, there are a small number of growing publications which strongly
agree with the findings of the present study.