This study will be conducted in organizations for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Specifically, our research focuses on the burnout of professionals providing services in such organizations and its consequences in terms of negative affect at work. Traditionally, the burnout of these professionals has been centered on interactions with users. In other words, the source of burnout has mainly been based on the demands related to providing services to individuals with intellectual disabilities. However, there may be another source of burnout that also plays a relevant role: administrative or bureaucratic workload. Over time, organizations for individuals with intellectual disabilities have become more bureaucratic, and this may have become a significant problem for professionals who are subjected to overly demanding and/or unmeaningful administrative tasks. With this factor in mind, our goal will be to examine the extent to which burnout based on administrative or bureaucratic workload predicts additional variance in terms of negative affect beyond burnout based on interaction with users (individuals with intellectual disabilities). Additionally, the moderating effect of burnout based on administrative workload will be tested. Thus, it is expected that burnout based on interaction will maintain more pronounced relationships with negative affect when the professional also experiences burnout based on administrative workload. To achieve this, a sample of over 200 professionals working in organizations for individuals with intellectual disabilities will be used. They will answer a questionnaire that includes the measurement of two sources of burnout (interaction with individuals with intellectual disability and administrative workload) as well as their negative affect. Moderated regression analyses with the PROCESS macro will be performed, controlling for sex and age of participants.

Burnout, intellectual disability, administrative workload, negative affect

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