Psychometrics properties of Maslach Burnout Inventory in a multifunctional sample

• Autor(a) principal: CARLOTTO, Mary Sandra
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: CÂMARA, Sheila Gonçalves
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/estpsi/article/view/6894
• topic: stress ocupacional; Inventário de Burnout de Maslach; precisão de teste; validade de construto; occupational stress; Maslach Burnout Inventory; test reliability; test validity

The Maslach Burnout Inventory was projected to evaluate the Burnout Syndrome in workers. This article analyses the psychometric characteristics (reliability and construct validity) of the Maslach Burnout Inventory - Human Services Survey in a sample of 655 Brazilian workers. The factorial analysis identified three factors: Emotional Exhaustion, Low Professional Accomplishment, and Depersonalization. These three factors explained 55,69% of the total variation of the subject’s answers. All of them have reached a satisfactory level of internal consistency, considering that the first Factor (Emotional Exhaustion) and the second (Low Professional Accomplishment) could function independently. Factor 3 (depersonalization), as its internal consistency was under .80, can not be considered as independent scale. However, this sub-scale contributes in an explanatory way to the comprehension about the Burnout Syndrome configuration in workers.