A comparison of the construct validity of two burnout measures in two groups of professionals.

2006/05/01 by Arie Shirom, Samuel Melamed · 9 citations
Health Professions · Business, Management and Accounting · #Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout #Workplace Health and Well-being #Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior

paper · doi:10.1037/1072-5245.13.2.176

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Abstract

Arie ShiromTel Aviv UniversitySamuel MelamedTel Aviv University and National Institute of Occupational & EnvironmentalHealthThe authors studied certain aspects of the construct validity of the MaslachBurnout Inventory–General Survey (MBI-GS), the most popular measure ofburnout, and that of the Shirom-Melamed Burnout Measure (SMBM). Theseburnout measures were compared with respect to their psychometric char-acteristics and factorial validity in two groups of professionals, humanservice and other professionals (N 196 and 226, respectively), whocompleted questionnaires at work. As hypothesized, the conrmatory factoranalyses supported a two-factor and a three-factor structure invarianceacross the two groups considered for the SMBM and the MBI-GS, respec-tively, with superior t found for the SMBM.

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