Thus, burnout research had its roots in care-giving and service occupations,in which the core of the job was the relationship between provider and recipient.This interpersonal context of the job meant that, from the beginning, burnout was studied not so much as an individual stress response, but in terms of an individual’s relational transactions in the workplace. Moreover, this interpersonal context focused attention on the individual’s emotions, and on the motives and values underlying his or her work with recipients.