A machine learning approach to behavioral signals of burnout in audit and control professions

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dc.authorid0000-0001-5160-7687
dc.authorid0000-0003-0132-3146
dc.authorid0000-0003-2995-5188
dc.authorid0000-0002-5916-4478
dc.authorid0000-0002-9407-1728
dc.contributor.authorAtılgan Sarıdoğan, Ayşe
dc.contributor.authorErkal, Zekeriya Emre
dc.contributor.authorKüçükgergerli, Nabi
dc.contributor.authorErtürk, Muzaffer
dc.contributor.authorEmeç, Murat
dc.contributor.authorYaman, Adem
dc.date.accessioned2026-08-26T06:41:43Z
dc.date.available2026-08-26T06:41:43Z
dc.date.issued2026
dc.departmentFakülteler, İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, İşletme Bölümü
dc.description.abstractBurnout is a persistent and growing concern in audit-and control-oriented professions, where prolonged cognitive demands and sustained performance pressure may manifest as observable behavioral withdrawal. This study examines absenteeism as an objective behavioral proxy for burnout and evaluates its determinants using a comparative machine learning framework. Drawing on a real-world human resources dataset, the analysis focuses on a specialized subsample of audit-and control-oriented employees. Multiple regression algorithms were benchmarked, including ordinary least squares, ridge regression, Lasso, Elastic Net, and a nonlinear ensemble method, and model performance was assessed using 5-fold cross-validation. Among the evaluated approaches, regularised linear models demonstrated superior robustness, with Elastic Net regression emerging as the most stable and interpretable model under small-sample conditions. The dominance of Elastic Net highlights the importance of combining sparsity and coefficient shrinkage when analyzing organizational data characterized by multicollinearity and limited observations. Nonlinear modeling provided complementary insights but did not outperform regularised linear methods in predictive accuracy. The results indicate that absenteeism in audit-oriented roles is primarily associated with structural and career-stage factors, rather than short-term behavioral fluctuations. This finding suggests that burnout-related withdrawal reflects cumulative role exposure and systemic work design characteristics, rather than episodic stress responses. From a methodological perspective, the study demonstrates the value of regularisation-based machine learning for producing transparent and reliable insights in auditing research, thereby addressing long-standing concerns about model interpretability and overfitting. By integrating performance benchmarking with explainable modeling, this research contributes to the emerging literature on explainable artificial intelligence in auditing. In practice, the findings support the development of preventive, system-level interventions aimed at workload structuring and career-stage support to mitigate burnout-driven absenteeism. Despite its exploratory nature, the study offers a rigorous, reproducible analytical framework applicable to similar professional settings with constrained data availability.
dc.identifier.citationAtılgan Sarıdoğan, A., Erkal, Z. E., Küçükgergerli, N., Ertürk, M., Emeç, M., & Yaman, A. (2026). A machine learning approach to behavioral signals of burnout in audit and control professions. Frontiers in Psychology, 17, pp. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1792200
dc.identifier.endpage9
dc.identifier.issn1664-1078
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1792200
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13055/1608
dc.identifier.volume17
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMed
dc.indekslendigikaynak.otherSSCI - Social Science Citation Index
dc.institutionauthorKüçükgergerli, Nabi
dc.institutionauthorid0000-0003-2995-5188
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherFrontiers Media S. A.
dc.relation.ispartofFrontiers in Psychology
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectAbsenteeism
dc.subjectAudit and Control Professions
dc.subjectBehavioral Analytics
dc.subjectBurnout
dc.subjectElastic Net
dc.subjectExplainable Artificial Intelligence
dc.subjectMachine Learning
dc.subjectOccupational Stress
dc.titleA machine learning approach to behavioral signals of burnout in audit and control professions
dc.typeArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication

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