Vol. 25 No. 1 (2022)
Articles

ANXIETY, STRESS RESISTANCE AND BURNOUT SYNDROME IN YOUNG DENTISTS WITH DIFFERENT WORK EXPERIENCE

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  • Antoaneta Vacheva
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7546/PsyRB.2022.25.01.05

Published 06/10/2022

Keywords

  • dentists,
  • anxiety,
  • stress resistance,
  • burnout

How to Cite

Vacheva, A. (2022). ANXIETY, STRESS RESISTANCE AND BURNOUT SYNDROME IN YOUNG DENTISTS WITH DIFFERENT WORK EXPERIENCE. Psychological Research (in the Balkans), 25(1). https://doi.org/10.7546/PsyRB.2022.25.01.05

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Abstract

Dentistry is one of  most prosperous and established professions. Young dentists go through the ranks new experiences, and feelings of anxiety, stress, and emotional burnout are especially common.Dentist helps to solve other people's problems and his work is subject to a wide range of stressors, negative emotions, dissatisfaction, nervousness, frustration, depressing situations.Purpose of the study is to examine whether  practicing  profession of "dentist" is  factor in differences in levels of anxiety, resistance to stress and emotional burnout, and to what extent  length of service affects  size of these differences.Subject of  study is to trace  correlation between anxiety, stress resistance and burnout syndrome in young dentists aged 24 to 29 years.

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