Burnout and depression: Two entities or one?

過(guò)勞和抑郁是一回事嗎？

Burnout and depression overlap considerably, according to the latest study on the subject led by psychology Professor Irvin S. Schonfeld of The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and his colleague, Renzo Bianchi, of the Institute of Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland.

最新研究表明：過(guò)勞和抑郁有很多重疊之處。這份研究由心理學(xué)教授Irvin S.Schonfeld（來(lái)自紐約市立大學(xué)科林鮑威爾公民和全球領(lǐng)導學(xué)院），和他的同事Renzo Bianchi(來(lái)自瑞士納沙泰爾大學(xué)工作與組織心理學(xué)研究所)。

The findings are based on a survey taken by 1,386 public school teachers, from pre-K to 12th grade across the United States, including New York, during the 2013-14 academic year.

研究采納了2013-2014學(xué)年全美國（含紐約）1386位公共學(xué)校教師的調查，這些老師的來(lái)自幼兒園學(xué)前班至12年級。

Based on their responses to a burnout measure, the teachers were categorized as belonging to either a burnout or no-burnout group. Less than one percent of the no-burnout group met criteria for a provisional diagnosis of depression, whereas 86 percent of the burnout group met these criteria.

基于教師們對于“過(guò)勞”測試的反應，他們被分為過(guò)勞組合非過(guò)勞組。研究者們對教師們的抑郁狀態(tài)進(jìn)行臨時(shí)測試，在非過(guò)勞組中，不到1%的人符合抑郁的標準，而過(guò)勞組中，86%的人符合該標準。

In addition, the teachers in the burnout group were about three times as likely to have a history of depression and almost four times as likely to be currently taking antidepressant medication. Teachers in the burnout group were also more than twice as likely to report a history of anxiety disorders. When burnout and depression were treated as continuous dimensions, they were very highly correlated.

此外，過(guò)勞組的教師們曾經(jīng)有3次服用抗抑郁藥物的階段，并且幾乎所有人都正在第4次服用抗抑郁藥物。過(guò)勞組的教師們還反應他們至少有過(guò)兩次抑郁癥病史。當將過(guò)勞和抑郁視作連續相關(guān)、處于不同程度的狀態(tài)，我們會(huì )發(fā)現二者關(guān)系非常密切。

“Our purpose was not to determine the prevalence of burnout or depressive symptoms in a representative sample of teachers,”explain Schonfeld and Bianchi.“Our analytic purpose was to determine the extent to which burnout and depression overlap, both dimensionally and categorically.”

“我們研究的目的并非要通過(guò)一部分富有代表性的教師，就斷定過(guò)勞和抑郁是普遍現象。”Schonfeld和Bianchi解釋道：“我們此項研究分析的目的是從程度和癥狀分類(lèi)，測定過(guò)勞和抑郁的相關(guān)性。”

Entitled,“Burnout and Depression: Two Entities or One?”the study appears in the“The Journal of Clinical Psychology.”

這篇研究報道發(fā)布在《臨床心理學(xué)雜志》（美國，本文發(fā)布于該雜志71卷，2015年12期）。

結語(yǔ)：從研究報道中可以看到，過(guò)勞和抑郁在一定程度上成正相關(guān)的，所以，如果身邊的事物讓您過(guò)度勞累，可以選擇在忙碌的路上停下來(lái)休息休息，畢竟，我們活著(zhù)除了生存還有生活的嘛！如果您發(fā)現您已經(jīng)無(wú)法自主調節改善這種情況，那就聯(lián)系我們安思利普客服吧，撥打電話(huà)：400-9797-666.