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The study aimed to investigate spirituality and self efficacy as predictors of burnout (dimensions) in clinical psychologist and general physicians. 100 health professionals from Delhi and NCR were taken as a sample of the study with 3-5 years and 6-9 years of practice experience. The tools used were Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) by Scheier and Carver, (1985) consists of 8 items. General Self Efficacy Scale Schwarzer and Jeruslam (1995) consists of and Daily Spirituality Experience Scale Underwood and Teresi (2002) consists of 16 items. Obtained scores were anlysed with the help of multiple regression . Results of the study indicated that Optimism emerged as the most important predictor of emotional exhaustion (burnout). Whereas Self efficacy influencing the emotional exhaustion in the insignificant manne.. The effect size of it also falls under the low category which indicated that optimism, and self efficacy produced very less influence on depersonalization and the average influence on personal accomplishment scores of clinical psychologists. It was also indicated that the two variables are the significant predictors of emotional exhaustion among general physician. Optimism influenced the emotional exhaustion in a negative manner, although it did not have the significant contribution. Self efficacy emerged as the important predictor of emotional exhaustion for general physician group. Self efficacy emerged as the important predictor of depersonalization for general physician group. Whereas optimism did not have a significant contribution to the criterion variable.