Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of Copenhagen burnout inventory among employees in two companies in Taiwan.
This study examined the psychometric properties of two selected scales--'personal burnout' and 'work-related burnout'--from the Chinese version of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (C-CBI) in 384 employees from two companies in Taiwan. A self-administered questionnaire was used that included the two C-CBI scales, the scales of mental health, vitality and general health from the Short Form 36 (SF-36), perceived level of job stress, job satisfaction, working hours, as well as measures for psychological job demands, job control, work-related social support, and over-commitment to work. Both the C-CBI personal burnout scale and work-related burnout scale had high internal consistency and were correlated well with other health, job characteristics, and perception of work measures;furthermore, exploratory factor analysis extracted two empirical factors. However, the two C-CBI scales were highly correlated in the present population and appeared to measure overlapping concepts. Some comments and suggestions were raised for further improvement.
Institute of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Wan-Yu
WY
Yeh
Yawen
Y
Cheng
Chiou-Jong
CJ
Chen
Pei-Yi
PY
Hu
Tage S
TS
Kristensen
D000328:Adult; D044466:Asian People; D002055:Burnout, Professional; D003718:Denmark; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology; D014177:Translations