ERIC Number: EJ739412
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1069-0727
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The Factorial Validity of The Maslach Burnout Inventory--General Survey in Representative Samples of Eight Different Occupational Groups
Langballe, Ellen Melbye; Falkum, Erik; Innstrand, Siw Tone; Aasland, Olaf Gjerlow
Journal of Career Assessment, v14 n3 p370-384 2006
The Maslach Burnout Inventory--General Survey (MBI-GS) is designed to measure the three subdimensions (exhaustion, cynicism, and professional efficacy) of burnout in a wide range of occupations. This article examines the factorial validity of the MBI-GS across eight different occupational groups in Norway: lawyers, physicians, nurses, teachers, church ministers, bus drivers, and people working within advertising and information technology (N = 5,024). Separate confirmatory factor analyses using LISREL showed that the hypothesized three-factor model had sufficient fit in all occupational groups except for the group of people working in advertising. In a multigroup analysis including all occupations but the latter one and in an analysis of all individuals combined into one sample, the three-factor model had a clearly better fit than the alternative one-factor and two-factor models. The results support that MBI-GS provides a suitable measurement to assess burnout across a diversity of professions. (Contains 1 figure and 3 tables.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physicians, Advertising, Validity, Occupations, Nurses, Lawyers, Information Technology, Burnout, Factor Structure, Fatigue (Biology), Causal Models, Stress Variables, Case Studies
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Norway
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Maslach Burnout Inventory
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