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The Contribution of Ego Development Level to Burnout in School Counselors: Implications for Professional School Counseling
Author(s) -
Lambie Glenn W.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6678.2007.tb00447.x
Subject(s) - burnout , id, ego and super ego , psychology , path analysis (statistics) , clinical psychology , loevinger's stages of ego development , social psychology , statistics , mathematics
This article reports the findings of a national survey study of school counseling professionals to determine if higher ego development contributed to a lower degree of burnout. Although the primary path analysis model tested did not fit the data observed, a significant positive relationship indicated that participants scoring at higher levels of ego functioning also scored at higher levels of personal accomplishment (1 dimension of their level of burnout). Implications of the findings are discussed.