Burnout vs. vigor profesional: análisis configuracional de las características sociolaborales e individuales protectoras en médicos catalanes

The innovation of this article consists in the outlook from which burnout is studied, being close to Positive Psychology. Its main aim is to describe social, occupational and personal features that turn out to be the most protective for persons at risk of suffering from burnout. Data were collected from 523 physicians working in health services in Catalonia (Spain). In the first place, the information was analyzed with bivariating techniques, and secondly, the Tree Analysis technique was used to find out which were the personal, professional and organizational configurations implying most or least burnout risk. Results point to a stronger relationship between burnout and job-extrinsic factors rather than individual factors. Besides, there seems to exist a certain relationship between burnout and the congruence of values between the person and the institution in which he works.