Associations between burnout symptoms and social behaviour: exploring the role of acute stress and vagal function

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Partial correlations between burnout symptoms, prosocial behaviour data, and vagally-mediated HRV at baseline and during the social decision making paradigm adjusted for age and depressive symptoms (N = 70)

	MBI total score		MBI EE		MBI CY		MBI PEr
	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
MBI total score
MBI EE	0.77**	< .001
MBI CY	0.75**	< .001	0.44**	< .001
MBI PEr	0.64**	< .001	0.22	0.07	0.34*	< 0.01
Basal vmHRV	-0.14	0.25	-0.06	0.64	-0.18	0.14	-0.08	0.52
VmHRV task	-0.24	0.05	-0.09	0.49	-0.30*	0.01	-0.15	0.22
Prosocial index	-0.19	0.13	-0.06	0.62	-0.26*	0.03	-0.15	0.23
Trust	-0.02	0.90	0.03	0.80	-0.11	0.39	-0.02	0.85
Trustworthiness	-0.18	0.14	-0.11	0.40	-0.19	0.12	-0.12	0.34
Sharing	-0.30*	0.01	-0.16	0.19	-0.36*	< 0.01	-0.21	0.09
Non-social risk score	0.17	0.16	0.15	0.24	0.16	0.18	0.14	0.25

MBI total score = Maslach Burnout Inventory—General Survey total score; MBI EE = emotional exhaustion sub-dimension; MBI CY = Maslach Burnout Inventory- General Survey cynicism sub-dimension; MBI PEr = reduced professional efficacy sub-dimension; Basal vmHRV = root mean square of successive difference between heart beats at seated baseline; vmHRV task = root mean square of successive difference between heart beats during the social decision making paradigm. * for p < .05; ** for p < .001

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