Table 1.
Overview of factors in the final CLD.
| Level | Factor | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Living conditions | Social network | A person’s social network of friends, relatives, and acquaintances. |
| Financial stress | Stress arising when perceiving that one’s income cannot fulfill financial obligations. | |
| Private life interference with worka | Work-life imbalance due to private life (e.g., care responsibilities) interfering with work. | |
| Work interference with private lifea | Work-life imbalance due to work interfering with private life. | |
| Working conditions | Job security | The probability of keeping one’s job and in case of losing it finding a new one. |
| Aggressive behavior at work | Aggressive behavior in the workplace by, for example, clients, students, patients, etc. | |
| Functional supervisor support | Receiving functional support from one’s supervisor. | |
| Task claritya | Having a clear understanding of one’s tasks, responsibilities, and processes at work. | |
| Autonomy | Being able to decide how to execute one’s work. | |
| Recovery timea | The amount of time that is granted to recover from a demanding task at work. | |
| Healthy work(place) culture | The organization’s degree of commitment in supporting prevention of stress and its openness to discussing mental health with employees and experts, combined with workers’ acceptance of existing (written and unwritten) rules and regulations directed at a healthy work(place) culture. | |
| (Very) high workload | A large volume of work to be handled by a worker. | |
| Emotionally demanding work situations | Emotional strain caused by emotionally difficult experiences in the workplace. | |
| Co-worker support | Receiving emotional and functional support from colleagues. | |
| Societal developments | Occupational health and safety (OHS) legislation | According to the OHS legislation employers have the responsibility to minimize/prevent work-related psychosocial stress. They also are required to have an overview of possible psychosocial risk factors and implement and evaluate existing preventive measures. |
| Size of working population | – | |
| Limited access to mental health carea | Access to mental health care is getting more complicated due to rules of the healthcare system as well as due to long waiting lists. | |
| Cost of livinga | – | |
| Worsening social securitya | – | |
| Rougher social climatea | People treating each other less kindly and respectful. |
a
Factors that were not listed in the overview of determinants of burn-out.