India, June 25 -- A new study from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has challenged the common belief that burnout is mainly caused by work.
"People who experience burnout describe stress in their daily lives which leads to a form of depression," said psychologist Renzo Bianchi, as per Science Alert.
"You could call it depressive stress in life."
During the study, researchers looked at 813 workers in Norway. Some of them expressed that they were feeling burned out. They were further asked about what they thought was causing the burnout, exhaustion, or stress.
While burnout was often linked to work-related factors, some things like job security and support from coworkers were more closely tied to general mental st...