Practice question · True or false
The General Adaptation Syndrome and burnout are competing theories of the same phenomenon.
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- Is one bodily and the other occupational?
- Different levels of description can both be right.
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False
Why
False. Selye's GAS is a general physiological response to any prolonged stressor; burnout is a specific occupational syndrome with three named components. They describe different levels and are compatible, which is why physiological markers accompany burnout without defining it.
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