Abstract:

Exhaust syndrome is a phenomenon that occurs due to work stress and more affects the work environment where human relationships are intense. The aim of this study is to investigate the extinction levels of accounting professionals registered in the Bursa Free Accounting Financial Customer's Chamber and to determine whether the extinction levels differ according to demographic variables. In the study, as the extinction scale, the Maslach extinction scale was used, consisting of 3 subdimensions (emotional extinction, insensitivity, personal success). The data related to this study in which 391 accounting professionals participated were analyzed in the SPPS 23 package program, the t test and the ANOVA test were implemented in order to determine whether the exhaust levels differ according to demographic variables. The study found that accounting professionals experienced high levels of extinction; that the lower dimensions/dimensions of extinction levels showed statistically significant differences according to gender, age, educational status, civil status, time of work at the current workplace and time of work at the professional workplace; that the workplace and the way of work did not differ.

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