A rela？？o entre a depress？o em contexto laboral e o burnout: Um estudo empírico com Enfermeiros

with this study we want to investigate the relationship between depression and burnout syndrome, in its three dimensions - emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and personal realization. this research was conducted with a convenience sample of 499 nurses who work in the algarve larger hospitals, and the instruments used were the depression subscale of eads - 21, of lovibond, and lovibond (1995, in the portuguese adaptation by pais ribeiro, honrado, leal, 2004), and mbi, of maslach and jackson (1981, in the portuguese adaptation for nurses by parreira, sousa, 2000). this result, lead us to suggest that although the depression disorder in the workplace can occur as a manifestation of burnout, however, the reverse seems to be not clear. so, we cannot say that burnout is a manifestation of depression. we conclude that these two entities are different constructs, although they may have common features.