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Judges are the central actors in the organization and functioning of the judicial system.
Concerns about work efficiency, driven by the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice, led
countries to adopt a set of reforms in line with private sector ideals applied to the public field to better
manage their financial and human resources. In the last decades, the Portuguese judicial system has
undergone a reform based on New Public Management principles by adopting the new Law on the
Organization of the Judiciary System (LOSJ), significantly altering judges’ duties, who beyond their
traditional role of applying the law, perform the additional role of court-of-law judge-manager. The
objective of this study is to explore the influence of role conflict and role ambiguity in occupational
burnout among judges and to analyze the influence of calling orientation as a moderating variable,
so as to present a conceptual model of role-stress management among the judiciary. Theoretically,
this work contributes to the literature on role-stress management through its introduction of calling
moderation, as well as to the literature on the positive influence of calling on burnout. In terms of
its practical implications, the work contributes to a reconsideration of the current organizational
structure of judicial work.
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Keywords
judges; calling orientation; role conflict; role ambiguity; burnout; judicial system
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Citation
Pereira, Sandra Patrícia Marques, Pedro Miguel Alves Ribeiro Correia, Patrícia Jardim da Palma, Liliana Pitacho, and Fabrício Castagna Lunardi. 2022. The Conceptual Model of Role Stress and Job Burnout in Judges: The Moderating Role of Career Calling. Laws 11: 42. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/laws1103004
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MDPI