Examining the Relationship between Negative Emotions, Job Burnout, and Patients with Rumination

There is much evidence that people's emotions affect their judgments and evaluations of other social processes. Emotions not only affect what people pay attention to, but also what they remember, their associations with objects, and their interpretation of social processes. Rumination is a common symptom in a wide range of mental illnesses. These negative and disturbing thoughts themselves can also exacerbate the severity of various mental disorders or provide a basis for the development of these disorders. The complications caused by them are not limited to mental health alone and can affect the physical health. In this article, the relationship between negative emotions, job burnout, and patients with rumination is simultaneously discussed. The results of a recent study showed that these two emotional factors have different relationships with depression and anxiety in patients with rumination. Since both anxiety and depression involve negative affect, the instruments for measuring both constructs have an equal negative affect factor. Therefore, negative affect is positively related to anxiety and depression in patients with rumination. On the other hand, anxiety and depression have relationships with positive affect. Instruments for measuring positive affect are highly negatively correlated with depressed mood and its associated symptoms, but not with anxious mood and its associated symptoms. It seems that increasing the pleasure level throughout life can lead to an increase in positive emotions and a decrease in negative emotions in patients with rumination. Emotions are an essential part of the dynamic system of the human personality. The characteristics and changes of emotions, how to establish emotional communication, understand, and interpret the emotions of others, contribute in growth, personality organization, moral development, social relationships, identity formation, and self-concept.

کلیدواژه ها:

Rumination ، Negative Emotions ، burnout ، anxiety ، Patient