title: Two Swedish screening instruments for exhaustion disorder: cross-sectional associations with burnout, work stress, private life stress, and personality traits.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the relationships of two screening instruments recently developed for assessment of exhaustion disorder (ED) with some other well-known inventories intended to assess ED-related concepts and self-reports of job demands, job control, job support, private life stressors, and personality factors.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional population sample ( n = 1355) completed: the Karolinska Exhaustion Disorder Scale (KEDS), Self-reported Exhaustion Disorder Scale (s-ED), Shirom-Melamed Burnout Questionnaire (SMBQ), Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-9), Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ), Big Five Inventory (BFI), and items concerning family-to-work interference and stress in private life.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Compared to participants without any indication of ED, participants classified as having ED on KEDS or s-ED had higher scores on all four SMBQ subscales, lower scores on the UWES-9 subscales vigor and dedication, higher JCQ job demands scores, lower JCQ job support scores, higher degrees of family-to-work interference and stress in private life, and higher BFI neuroticism and openness scores. In addition, participants classified as having ED on KEDS had lower scores on the UWES-9 absorption subscale, the JCQ job control scale, and lower BFI extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness scores, compared to the subgroup not classified as having ED.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  As expected, we observed an overall pattern of associations between the ED screening inventories KEDS and s-ED and measures of burnout, work engagement, job demands-control-support, stress in private life, family-to-work interference, and personality factors. The results suggest that instruments designed to assess burnout, work engagement, and ED share common ground, despite their conceptual differences.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden.|2 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Sweden.
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Persson
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden.|2 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Sweden.
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Österberg
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden.
authors.forename: Njördur
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Viborg
authors.affiliation: 3 School of Education and Environment, Centre for Psychology, Kristianstad University, Sweden.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jönsson
authors.affiliation: 4 Hälsan & Arbetslivet, Occupational Health Care Unit, Skaraborg Hospital, Skövde, Sweden.|5 Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
authors.forename: Artur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tenenbaum
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000523:psychology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005221:Fatigue / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden; D014937:Work / Q000523:psychology
keywords: Burnout; KEDS; LUCIE; exhaustion disorder; personality traits; s-ED; stress