In this edition of Work & Stress , Kristensen and his colleagues critically discuss the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and present an alternative, more general instrument to measure burnout that exclusively focuses on exhaustion. Here we critically examine their reasons for developing a new burnout measure, as well as the theoretical foundations of this measure. Whereas we agree with Kristense...

This study examined the factorial validity of the Maslach Burnout Inventory General Survey (MBI-GS; Schaufeli et al., 1996) in eight different occupational groups of employees (N = 2919), who were recruited through the Internet. Results of multi-group confirmatory factor analyses favored the proposed Three-Factor Model over alternative Two-Factor and One-Factor Models. Exhaustion, cynicism, and...

Methods We applied a specific questionnaire to the physiotherapy team in the intensive care unit and step down, with questions describing the socio-demographic and occupational variables of the participants, plus specific information to describe the burnout using the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). This instrument consists of 22 items, ranging from “0” as “never” to “6” as “every day”, distrib...

The objectives of this study are to assess the psychometric properties of an adapted version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS) for academic staff in South African higher education institutions and to investigate differences between the burnout levels of different demographic groups. A survey design was used, with stratified random samples (N = 595) taken of academics in s...

Nurses who work in hemodialysis (HD) are considered highly susceptible to burnout due to their close relationship with incurable patients and handling sophisticated machinery. A total of 210 nurses from 12 state-owned HD centers in the Republic of Serbia anonymously completed a background information questionnaire providing factual data on nurses’ sociodemographic characteristics and working co...

BACKGROUND This cross-sectional study aimed to examine the relationship between several dimensions of the burnout syndrome with certain stress-coping strategies, seniority level and marital status in male staff from National Police in Vaparaíso, Chile. METHODS The sample collected in 2010 was composed of 338 male officers coming from various special units of a National Police in Valparaíso. B...

The aim of the study was to investigate how starting to use dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) in the work with young self-harming women showing symptoms of borderline personality disorder affected the psychiatric professionals (n = 22) experience of occupational stress and levels of professional burnout. The study was carried out in relation to an 18-month clinical psychiatric development p...

OBJECTIVES Familial caregivers of demented patients suffer from high levels of burden of care, but the literature is sparse regarding the prevalence and predictors of burnout in this group. Burnout is composed of three dimensions: emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP) and reduced personal accomplishment (RPA). We aimed to investigate the associations between burnout dimensions and t...

Introducción: el síndrome de burnout (SBO) y riesgo elevado (REBO) representan un latente en los medicos anestesiólogos, exacerbado por la pandemia Covid-19, esto, debido a sobrecarga trabajo, estrés laboral miedo al contagio entro otros factores. El Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) es instrumento para diagnóstico, evalúa tres subescalas: despersonalización, desgaste emocional, realización perso...