Burnout, work-related daily negative affect and rumination: A mediation model combining an intensive and longitudinal design

The study aims to examine the relationship between daily negative affect and rumination in the context of work, and to verify their mediating role in the development of burnout. A classical longitudinal design was combined with ten-day online daily measurements among 235 civil servants. A random intercept cross-lagged panel model was implemented. From a within-person perspective, carryover, spillover and synchronic relationships between work-related negative affect and rumination were analysed. At the between-person level, a mediation model of the random intercepts of negative affect and rumination between two burnout measurements was tested.