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This study examines the relationship between perceived organizational support and job burnout, and whether this relationship varies across career stages and professional sectors.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Data were drawn from the Nature Career Job and Salary Satisfaction Survey 2021, a large-scale international survey of academic working conditions. The survey was administered in five languages and yielded 3,210 valid responses from academic professionals across 95 countries.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Three key findings emerge. First, burnout is widespread, with women, early-career researchers, and those in academia facing higher risks. Second, cross-national comparisons suggest heterogeneous patterns in which organizational support and job burnout do not always align. Third, organizational support is significantly associated with lower levels of burnout, though the strength and direction of this association vary across career stages and sectors.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Implications<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>These findings suggest the need to view burnout as an early warning signal, establish structured support systems, and deliver targeted interventions to promote a more sustainable academic environment.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2026.1782137","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,17]],"date-time":"2026-09-17T04:29:19Z","timestamp":1789619359000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The association between perceived organizational support and academic job burnout: a comparative study of career stages and professional sectors"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Juan","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"The School of Public Administration, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics","place":["Chengdu, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xianghui","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Educational Sciences, Hunan University","place":["Changsha, Hunan, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"886","DOI":"10.5897\/AJBM.9000309","article-title":"Gender differences in the experience of work burnout among university staff","volume":"4","author":"Adekola","year":"2010","journal-title":"Afr. 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