Christina Maslach
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Stanford University (PhD)
- Psychologist
- psychology professor
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| Born | January 21, 1946 |
| Education | Radcliffe College (BA) Stanford University (PhD) |
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| Known for | Stopping the Stanford prison experiment |
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Christina Maslach (born January 21, 1946)[1] is an American social psychologist and professor emerita of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley,[2] known for her research on occupational burnout.[3] She is a co-author of the Maslach Burnout Inventory[4] and Areas of Worklife Survey.[5] Early in her professional career, Maslach was instrumental in stopping the Stanford prison experiment.[6] In 1997, she was awarded the U.S. Professor of the Year.
Maslach graduated from Berkeley High School (California) (1963), Radcliffe College (1967) and earned a Ph.D. in psychology at Stanford University (1971).[7] After receiving her Ph.D., Maslach joined the psychology department at Berkeley as an assistant professor.[2]
Her critique of the Stanford prison experiment persuaded investigator Philip Zimbardo (later her husband) to stop the experiment after only six days.[6] The experience also shaped Maslach's later career, particularly her interest in occupational burnout[8] as a response to unavoidable stress.[9] Maslach and Zimbardo married in 1972, a year after the study.[10]
In 1981, Maslach and Susan E. Jackson authored the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) to assess an individual's experience of occupational burnout in human services settings.[4] She later developed alternative versions of the original MBI to be used to assess education settings (1986) and general occupational settings (1996).[11] More than 30 years later, in 2014, the Maslach Burnout Inventory was still being cited as "the mainstream measure for burnout".[12]
From 1988 to 1989, she was president of the Western Psychological Association (WPA). Since 2001, she has been vice provost for undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkeley.[7]
