The Relationship Between Adult Attachment Style and Burnout: The Mediating Effect of Resilience

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10.2991/assehr.k.220704.089How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Chinese workers; adult attachment; resilience; job burnout

Abstract

With worldwide range increase of burnout in the workplace, ascending amount of investigates were focusing on the contributing factors of burnout, including resilience and adult attachment styles. However, the interactive effect of adult attachment styles and resilience on job burnout is less clear. Moreover, most of studies examined western workers, and little is known about the Chinese working population. Hence, the present study investigated 241 Chinese workers from diverse industries (Mage = 37.94, SDage = 10.04; 57.63% females), and examined the mediation effect of resilience on the relationship between adult attachment and job burnout. A cross-sectional online survey design was adopted. Results showed that a fully mediating effect of resilience occurred on the relationship of secure attachment styles (compared to avoidant attachment) and burnout while no significant relationships were found in anxious (vs. avoidant) attachment model. Our findings suggest that managers should help employees develop higher resilience to achieve less job burnout, especially for employee with secure attachment styles.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jianing Gong
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/11
TI  - The Relationship Between Adult Attachment Style and Burnout: The Mediating Effect of Resilience
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Mental Health, Education and Human Development (MHEHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 486
EP  - 493
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220704.089
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220704.089
ID  - Gong2022
ER  -