Job control and its impacts on burnout in academic instruction librarians

Librarians have been grappling with the issue of burnout for decades, at least. This study uses the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) and Job Control Inventory to show how job control impacts burnout. Using the CBI, academic instruction librarians, on average, have high work-related burnout and even higher personal burnout compared to other jobs. However, librarians have low client-related burnout, similar to other “caring” or “helping” professions. The findings point to key factors that impact job control and burnout to help consider ways of mitigating burnout and increasing job control.
Author

Matthew Weirick Johnson

Published

12 June 2023

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BibTeX citation:
@article{johnson2023,
  author = {Johnson, Matthew Weirick},
  title = {Job Control and Its Impacts on Burnout in Academic
    Instruction Librarians},
  journal = {Journal of Library Administration},
  volume = {63},
  number = {5},
  pages = {595 - 632},
  date = {2023-06-12},
  url = {https://mattweirick.com/research/control2023.html},
  doi = {10.1080/01930826.2023.2219601},
  langid = {en},
  abstract = {Librarians have been grappling with the issue of burnout
    for decades, at least. This study uses the Copenhagen Burnout
    Inventory (CBI) and Job Control Inventory to show how job control
    impacts burnout. Using the CBI, academic instruction librarians, on
    average, have high work-related burnout and even higher personal
    burnout compared to other jobs. However, librarians have low
    client-related burnout, similar to other “caring” or “helping”
    professions. The findings point to key factors that impact job
    control and burnout to help consider ways of mitigating burnout and
    increasing job control.}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Johnson, M. W. (2023). Job control and its impacts on burnout in academic instruction librarians. Journal of Library Administration, 63(5), 595–632. https://doi.org/10.1080/01930826.2023.2219601