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Work Locus of Control
and Burnout Syndrome
Jozef Maciuszek and Bartlomiej Melges
INTRODUCTION
The paper analyzes the signicance of an individual’s perception of locus of control (LOC), which
determines their functioning at work. It also looks at the results of our research into the relation-
ship between work LOC and degree of occupational burnout. Numerous studies of the relation-
ship between LOC and occupational burnout have been conducted before ours, but they focused
mainly on a generalized perception of the LOC. Our research, however, investigates the relationship
between individual beliefs about sources of control in the workplace a ...