Significant effects due to rephrasing the Maslach Burnout Inventory's personal accomplishment items.
Subjects, 292 Dutch psychology students answering negatively phrased Personal Accomplishment items, reported a more personally competent feeling than subjects answering positively phrased personal accomplishment items. The way of phrasing personal accomplishment items significantly affects the answers given.
Bouman
Anne Marthe
AM
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Te Brake
Hans
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Hoogstraten
Johan
J
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012649:Self Concept; D012660:Semantics