Given the detrimental effects of burnout for individuals and organizations, it is of crucial importance to better understand the self-initiated actions employees take to prevent burnout. While such proactive burnout prevention is likely to reduce burnout complaints, these activities may also be frustrated by high burnout levels. This means that proactive burnout prevention and burnout can negatively affect each other over time. The present study used a four-wave longitudinal panel design to investigate temporal relationships between proactive burnout prevention and burnout over 3, 6 and 9 weeks. Participants were 165 employees in the financial services industry who provided data on all four measurement occasions. The outcomes of structural equation modelling provided support for the hypothesized combined effects model compared to the lagged and reversed effects models. The findings suggest that proactive burnout prevention can help to prevent burnout, while engagement in these behaviours may be hindered by high initial levels of burnout. Employees should therefore intervene before their resource pool becomes too depleted and they lack the energy or mental strength to invest resources, in order to proactively retain or regain resources.

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调查主动倦怠预防与倦怠之间的时间关系：四波纵向研究

鉴于倦怠对个人和组织的不利影响，更好地了解员工为防止倦怠而采取的自发行动至关重要。虽然这种主动的倦怠预防可能会减少倦怠投诉，但这些活动也可能因高倦怠水平而受挫。这意味着随着时间的推移，主动预防倦怠和倦怠可能会相互产生负面影响。本研究采用四波纵向面板设计来研究主动倦怠预防与 3、6 和 9 周的倦怠之间的时间关系。参与者为金融服务行业的 165 名员工，他们提供了所有四个测量场合的数据。与滞后效应和反向效应模型相比，结构方程模型的结果为假设的组合效应模型提供了支持。研究结果表明，积极主动的倦怠预防有助于防止倦怠，而初始倦怠水平较高可能会阻碍对这些行为的参与。因此，员工应该在资源池过于枯竭、缺乏精力或精神力量投入资源之前进行干预，以主动保留或重新获得资源。