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.
Yeh
Wan-Yu
WY
Institute of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Cheng
Yawen
Y
Chen
Chiou-Jong
CJ
Hu
Pei-Yi
PY
Kristensen
Tage S
TS
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