Presented my research paper today at the International Psychology Conference 2026, organised by Persatuan Psikologi Malaysia together with Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and HELP University.
My study examined traumatic stress exposure and burnout among 120 Malaysian corporate employees using the LEC 5 and Burnout Assessment Tool.
The findings suggest that the relationship between traumatic stress and burnout may be more complex and dimension specific than a simple “more trauma, more burnout” pattern.
The clearest signal appeared in exhaustion. The regression model for exhaustion was significant and explained 23.1% of the variance.
This leads to an important direction for future research.
I would like to explore this with larger and more diverse samples, while examining cumulative trauma exposure and moderators such as job demands, job resources, resilience, social support and perceived control.
I am also interested in whether subjective exhaustion always matches physiological regulation.
Some employees may become accustomed to chronic stress, underreport exhaustion, or experience reduced awareness of their own physiological load.
Future studies could therefore combine self report measures such as BAT with psychophysiological indicators such as heart rate variability and biofeedback derived regulation measures.
The question may not only be “How burned out is this employee?”
It may also be “What pattern of resource depletion is developing, what is maintaining it, and can we detect it before it progresses further?”
This is the direction I hope to continue exploring within Occupational Health Psychology.
#OccupationalHealthPsychology #Burnout #WorkplaceMentalHealth #PsychosocialRisk #TraumaInformed #IPC2026
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