Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each feature by whether it belongs to Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) or to Maslach's burnout.
Groups: General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) · Burnout
- Shows up the same way whether the stressor is cold, injury or fear
- Describes alarm, resistance, and exhaustion body stages
- A three-component PSYCHOLOGICAL/EMOTIONAL syndrome
- Emerges from months of unrelenting demand in a particular role
Hints
- GAS is a general BODILY response to any stressor; burnout is a specific EMOTIONAL syndrome of chronic role stress.
- The three components (exhaustion, depersonalization, reduced accomplishment) are burnout, not GAS.
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General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS): Shows up the same way whether the stressor is cold, injury or fear, Describes alarm, resistance, and exhaustion body stages
Burnout: A three-component PSYCHOLOGICAL/EMOTIONAL syndrome, Emerges from months of unrelenting demand in a particular role
Why
GAS is a general physiological stress response (alarm-resistance-exhaustion) to almost any stressor; burnout is a specific psychological/emotional syndrome of chronic role stress with three components. The distinction is bodily-and-general versus emotional-and-role-specific.
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