A Confirmation of the Three-Factor Structure of the Maslach Burnout Inventory

Green, Dianne E.; Walkey, Frank H.

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“…The results of our data among the Indian clergy demonstrating that emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation group into a single factor were in line with a few studies (GREEN et al 1991;SCHAUFELI & VAN DIERENDONCK 1993). Some researchers feel that a two-factor model will also fit the data well (TARIS et al 1999), since there is a broad consensus that the 'Core of Burnout Scale' is a composite score of exhaustion and depersonalisation (GREEN et al 1991). However, the MBI manual (MASLACH & JACKSON 1986) states that a threefactor model for the relations among items will fit the data better than a twofactor model in which the exhaustion and cynicism scales are merged.…”

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Does Commitment to Celibacy Lead to Burnout or Enhance Engagement? A Study among the Indian Catholic Clergy

Joseph¹,

Corveleyn²,

Luyten³

et al. 2010

European Journal of Mental Health

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Burnout and engagement in general are thought to be associated mostly with work related factors and sometimes with personal factors as well. Over the past three decades a number of studies among clergy have identified various causes for priests' susceptibility to burnout and have linked various independent variables in the study of burnout among clergy. However, a study on the association between commitment to celibacy, burnout and engagement among clergy has not been attempted. Is celibacy psychologically a possible way of life? In the Catholic Church (Latin Rite), the sacrament of Holy Orders for the presbyterate is normally conferred only on candidates who are ready to freely embrace and publicly manifest their intention of staying celibate for the love of God's kingdom and the service of human beings. This study among Indian Catholic clergy contributes to the literature of burnout and engagement by studying the association of commitment towards priestly celibacy with clergy burnout and engagement -a new venture in the field of burnout and engagement. In addition, for the first time the construct of engagement has been used among clergy. Hierarchical regression analyses in the sample of 511 Catholic diocesan priests from South India confirmed that commitment to celibacy was negatively associated with burnout (that is it had a negative association with emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation and a positive association with personal accomplishment), and on the other hand, it was positively associated with engagement. Keywords

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Does Commitment to Celibacy Lead to Burnout or Enhance Engagement? A Study among the Indian Catholic Clergy

Joseph¹,

Corveleyn²,

Luyten³

et al. 2010

European Journal of Mental Health

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“…Normative values for the three dimensions were established with data collected from a representative range of workers in the social sector, including nurses, social workers, teachers, police officers and psychologists. Subsequent factor analytic examinations, for example by Fimian andBlanton (1987), Green andWalkey (1988), Gold, Roth, Wright, Michael, and Chen (1992), Soederfeldt, Soederfeldt, Warg, and Ohlson (1996) and Tang (1998) have provided supportive evidence for the threedimensional structure of burnout among various samples of human service personnel.…”

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The Oswald Clergy Burnout Scale: Reliability, Factor Structure and Preliminary Application Among Australian Clergy

Francis

Hills

Kaldor³

2008

Pastoral Psychol

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This study assesses the Oswald Clergy Burnout Scale (OCBI), the psychometric properties of which have not been previously described. Analysis of responses from a large number (N = 3,012) of ministers in charge of Australian congregations showed that the scale's internal reliability was satisfactory, and that the scale could be represented by two factors, identified as the personal and social aspects of burnout respectively. This structure was supported by confirmatory factor analysis. Several demographic and job-related variables that might relate to burnout were regressed on the total, personal and social factor scores. Age is the predominant (negative) predictor of burnout as measured by the total scale and the personal factor scores. All variables predict burnout as measured by the social factor.However, in all models, the predictor variables account for no more than 5% of the total variance. These findings suggest that demographic factors and working conditions are poor predictors of burnout among clergy.

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“…The final component is known as reduced personal accomplishment, and refers to feelings of incompetence and lack of achievement at work (Maslach, Schaufeli, & Leiter, 2001). In the present study we restrict our analyses to the emotional exhaustion and depersonalization components of burnout; these are generally considered to be the core components (Demerouti, Bakker, Nachreiner, & Schaufeli, 2001;Green, Walkey, & Taylor, 1991), whilst personal accomplishment is often treated as a separate scale. Conceptually, personal accomplishment has been argued to largely reflect a personality characteristic similar to selfefficacy (Cordes & Dougherty, 1993;Shirom, 1989).…”

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The value of psychological flexibility: Examining psychological mechanisms underpinning a cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for burnout

2013

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. One hundred employees of a UK government department were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: (1) a worksite, group-based, CBT intervention called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT; n = 43), which aimed to increase participants' psychological flexibility; and, (2) a waitlist control group (control; n = 57). The ACT group received three half-day sessions of training spread over two and a half months. Data were collected at baseline (T1), at the beginning of the second (T2) and third (T3) workshops, and at six months follow-up (T4). Consistent with ACT theory, analyses revealed that, in comparison to the control group, a significant increase in psychological flexibility from T2 to T3 in the ACT group mediated the subsequent T2 to T4 decrease in emotional exhaustion in the ACT group. Permanent repository linkConsistent with a theory of emotional burnout development, this significant decrease in emotional exhaustion from T2 to T4 in the ACT group prevented the significant T3 to T4 increase in depersonalization seen in the control group. Strain also decreased from T2 to T3in the ACT group, only, but no mediator of that improvement was identified. Discussion focuses on implications for theory and practice in the fields of ACT and emotional burnout.

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A Confirmation of the Three-Factor Structure of the Maslach Burnout Inventory

Cited by 129 publications

References 13 publications

Does Commitment to Celibacy Lead to Burnout or Enhance Engagement? A Study among the Indian Catholic Clergy

Does Commitment to Celibacy Lead to Burnout or Enhance Engagement? A Study among the Indian Catholic Clergy

The Oswald Clergy Burnout Scale: Reliability, Factor Structure and Preliminary Application Among Australian Clergy

The value of psychological flexibility: Examining psychological mechanisms underpinning a cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for burnout

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