https://doi.org/10.15344/2455-7498/2020/161
Abstract
Background: Is the burnout syndrome the widest spread disease in today’s modern Western society? It is, at least if you valuate its popularity by the constant media attention it catches. This article aims to combine two previous studies on body- and time-experience of Burnout-patients. After describing the time-experience of the individual Burnout-types, this article will also confront the two, to deepen the understanding for the different approaches towards time.
Methods: The answers of 48 guided interviews were analyzed using the qualitative content analysis by Mayring and later assigned to the results of an earlier quantitative research.
Results: Burnout patients can be divided into two groups. This theory is not only supported by the quantitative results of the analysis of the KBMTs, which showed significant differences between the two groups, but also numerous items of the qualitative analysis of the guided interviews strengthen this theory.
Conclusion: The two types of Burnout-patient share the fait, that their time-experience is strongly attached to external rhythms. However, one type seems to take on more of a “suffering” role, as he/she would have the time resources to support their own well-being, while the other type seems to be solely concentrated on his/her job and therefore puts every possible minute of their day into it. Both types lose their individual time-rhythm and also the feeling for their own body, but do so in very distinct ways.