Burnout Patients Primed with Success Did Not Perform Better on a Cognitive Task than Burnout Patients Primed with Failure英文文献资料.docVIP

Psychology 2012. Vol.3, No.8, 583-589 Published Online August 2012 in SciRes (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/psych) /10.4236/psych.2012.38087 Burnout Patients Primed with Success Did Not Perform Better on a Cognitive Task than Burnout Patients Primed with Failure Arno Van Dam 1* , Ger P. J. Keijsers , Marc J. P. M. Verbraak , 2 2,3 Paul A. T. M. Eling 4 , Eni S. Becker 2 1 GGZ-Westelijk Noord Brabant, Institute for Mental Health, Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands 2 Radboud University Nijmegen, Behavioural Science Institute, Nijmegen, Netherlands 3 HSK-Group, Arnhem, Netherlands 4 Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands * Email: arno.van.dam@ggzwnb.nl Received May 1 , 2012; revised June 5 , 2012; accepted July 7 , 2012 st th th Burnout patients perform poorer on cognitive tasks than healthy controls. A possible explanation for this decreased performance is a relatively permanent reduced motivation to expend effort. In a previous study, we failed to enhance the performance of burnout patients using a monetary incentive and positive feed- back. In an attempt to bypass cognitions about fatigue and performance, we tried to motivate healthy con- trols and burnout patients implicitly by priming participants with either success or failure prior to task performance. As expected, healthy controls primed with success outperformed healthy controls primed with failure. However, no differential priming effect was observed in burnout patients. This suggests that success priming fails to enhance performance in subjects with burnout. Keywords: Burnout; Cognition; Motivation; Performance; Prime; Success Introduction longed periods of time), may be fundamental to long-term fa- tigue syndromes such as burnout. Th