Christina Maslach

Christina Maslach
Born (1946-01-21) January 21, 1946 (age 80)
EducationRadcliffe College (BA)
Stanford University (PhD)
Occupations
  • Psychologist
  • psychology professor
Known forStopping the Stanford prison experiment
Spouse
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(m. 1972; died 2024)​

Christina Maslach (born January 21, 1946) is an American social psychologist. She has been a professor emerita of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is known for her research on occupational burnout. She is a co-author of the Maslach Burnout Inventory and Areas of Worklife Survey. She also played an important role in stopping the Stanford prison experiment. A year after shutting down the experiment, she married Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist who ran the experiment.

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-03. Retrieved 2017-09-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ↑ Worth, Katie. "When Scientists Are Mad about Each Other". Scientific American. Retrieved 2018-01-05. In lectures they frequently discuss the moment when Maslach argued with Zimbardo in the parking lot, which Zimbardo describes as an act of heroism, because she stood up for her principles even though she knew the consequence might be losing his and his colleagues' approval—and ending a relationship she cared about.
  3. ↑ Scott Plous. "Christina Maslach". Maslach.socialpsychology.org. Retrieved 2012-06-27.
  4. ↑ Maslach, C.; Jackson, S.E. (1981). "The measurement of experienced burnout". Journal of Occupational Behavior, 2, 99–113.
  5. ↑ Leiter, M.P; Maslach, C. (1999). "Six areas of worklife: A model of the organizational context of burnout". Journal of Health and Human Resources Administration, 21, 472–489.
  6. ↑ Ratnesar, Romesh. "The Menace Within". Stanford Magazine. No. July/August 2011. Stanford, California: Stanford University. Archived from the original on November 10, 2018.

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