Fear of Relationship Loss: Attachment Style as a Vulnerability Factor in Job Burnout

Figure 1

Relative influence of predictors on the functions’ values (standardised coefficients) and the correlation between the “ASTYLES” variables and functions (structural matrix)_

	Standardised coefficientsFunctions			Structural matrixFunctions
	1	2	3	1	2	3
Secure style	−0.42	−0.92	0.15	−0.38	0.92*	−0.05
Preoccupied style	0.88	0.35	−0.61	0.34	0.31	−0.85*
Avoidant style	0.94	0.40	0.47	0.57	0.12	0.78*
Dismissing style	−0.03	0.06	0.27	−0.00	−0.01	0.41*

Descriptive statistics (mean scores and standard deviations) for performance-based self-esteem, workaholism and burnout by burnout risk group (ABSRi), and the results of the one-way analysis of variance_

		M	M	F df(3.3389)	p
Performance-based self-esteem	Relaxed	19.16	5.60	1,489.78	0.00**
	Challenged	41.55	10.50
	Wornout	20.49	4.47
	Burnout	43.82	9.11
Workaholism	Relaxed	39.24	8.91	712.45	0.00**
	Challenged	63.37	17.46
	Wornout	44.50	7.22
	Burnout	67.47	13.75
Burnout	Relaxed	.03	.08	1,686.04	0.00**
	Challenged	.03	.02
	Wornout	.81	.29
	Burnout	1.29	.60

Comparison of the percentage of participants with secure and insecure attachment styles (ASTYLES variable) between burnout risk groups (ABSRi variable)_

			Attachment styles (ASTYLES)
			Secure	Preoccupied	Avoidant	Dismissing
Burnout risk groups	Relaxed	N	446	56	34	296
		%	53.6%	6.7%	4.1%	35.6%
	Challenged	N	53	49	102	54
		%	20.5%	19.0%	39.5%	20.9%
	Wornout	N	193	48	15	72
		%	58.8%	14.6%	4.6%	22.0%
	Burnout	N	30	295	488	89
		%	3.3%	32.7%	54.1%	9.9%

Testing the equality of centroids by burnout class (ABSCl)_

Functions tested	Wilks’s lambda	χ2	df	p
1 / 3	0.12	4,921.07	12	0.00**
2 / 3	0.80	507.64	6	0.00**
3	0.95	11.53	2	0.00**

Descriptive statistics for the testing results (mean scores and standard deviations)_

Variable	M	SD
Burnout (ABSRa)	0.65	0.72
Performance-based self-esteem (PBS)	34.21	14.09
Workaholism (WORKHL)	56.59	17.98
Secure style (SEC-AS)	4.12	2.19
Preoccupied style (PRE-AS)	3.29	2.05
Avoidant style (AVO-AS)	3.63	2.24
Dismissing style (DIS-AS)	3.59	2.01

Frequencies, descriptive statistics and differences in test scores by category “low level” and “high level” for burnout, performance-based self-esteem and workaholism_

		N	M	SD	t	t-test df	p
ABSCat	Low	1,130	0.06	0.11	−66.19	1778.04	0.00**
	High	1,190	1.22	0.58
PBSCat	Low	431	1.69	0.41	−60.15	120.50	0.00**
	High	2,694	3.74	0.66
WORKCat	Low	335	37.84	7.28	−41.21	133.521	0.00**
	High	1,225	67.85	12.77

Summary of one-way repeated measures analysis of variance: attachment style mean score (ASTYLES variable) by group (relaxed, challenged, wornout and burnout; (ABSRi variable)_

Variability source	SS	df	MS	F	p
Between individuals
Cross section	464.632	3	154.877	56.215	0.00**
Error	6,380.744	2,316	2.755
Within individuals
ASTYLES	1,482.684	2.627	564.354	108.028	0.00**
ASTYLES*ABSRi	3321.341	7.882	421.400	80.664	0.00**
Error	31,787.110	6,084.654	5.224

Burnout risk groups_

Burnout risk	Performance-based self-esteem and/or workaholism
	Low	High
Low	Relaxed	Challenged
High	Wornout	Burnout

Percentages of appropriately classified members of individual burnout risk groups_

		Predicted group members
		Relaxed	Challenged	Wornout	Burnout
Original group members	Relaxed	86.3%	4.1%	9.6%	0.0
	Challenged	0.0	91.1%	8.9%	0.0
	Wornout	0.0	10.7%	89.3%	0.0
	Burnout	0.0	15.9%	2.7%	81.5%

Participant classification into burnout risk groups (ABSRi variable)_

	Low ABSCat	High ABSCat
Low PBSCat and WORKCa	Relaxed	Wornout
	832 (35.9%)	328 (14.1%)
High PBSCat and WORKCat	Challenged	Burnout
	258 (11.1%)	902 (38.9%)