Individual traits and organizational demands as precursors of "Vigor": Lessons from an international comparative study of hospitals

An extended rationale borrowed from configurational conceptual contributions was used to test multiple possible linkages (or profiles) between certain personal, organizational, and cultural variables that affect burnout vs. vigor. A self-administered questionnaire of 1509 physicians working in the Swedish and Spanish public hospitals was used. Standardized job/work demands were employed in conjunction with the Uppsala Burnout scale. A combination of ANOVAs and "classification and regression tree analyses" was utilized. Results show an architecture that predicts more than 50% of the explained variance and also reveals two "tree branches" with distinct profiles. Better understanding of the precursors to burnout/vigor is proposed.