International Journal of Behavior Studies in Organizations

The research is aimed at expanding the scientific understanding of the psychological characteristics of professional stress, the causes of its occurrence, as well as the effects of stressors in the manager's work. The article attempts to correlate the semantic fields of the concepts professional stress and emotional burnout. A definition and characterization of emotional burnout syndrome as a consequence of chronic stress is provided. The specificity of the manifestation of emotional burnout in the totality of the influence of objective and subjective factors in the activity of managers is presented. The content of the concept of self-actualization is defined. The expediency of applying a positively oriented (existential-humanistic) approach in the search for psychological resources of coping with emotional burnout is substantiated. The study provides a theoretical and methodological basis for the development of measures for effective prevention and psychological correction of emotional burnout syndrome.