WORK-RELATED BURNOUT AS A PREDICTOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS IN PHARMACEUTICAL SALES REPRESENTATIVES

Abstract

The main objective of the current study was to investigate the predictive relationship of work-related burnout with psychological distress among pharmaceutical representatives. For the current study a sample of 201 participants including 100 males and 101 females (M=27.55,SD=4.96) who were working in the different pharmaceutical companies in Punjab were selected through purposive sampling technique. The personnel information form and the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (Demerouti et al., 2003) and Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (Kessler et al., 2002) were administered individually to collect the data. The t-test was employed to test the assumption of the study. The results of linear regression analysis reveal that work-related burnout didn’t predict psychological distress among pharmaceutical representatives. The potential implications and further avenues for future research are suggested.