Burnout Assessment Tool.
BAT
- What it measures
- Burnout as energy-regulation failure: four core symptoms (Exhaustion, Mental Distance, Cognitive Impairment, Emotional Impairment) plus secondary symptoms (psychological + psychosomatic complaints).
- Length and format
- 23 core (BAT-C); +10 secondary (BAT-S) = 33 total; BAT-12 short core. 5-pt frequency Likert (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Multiple incl. EN, NL, DE, FI, JA, and others; cross-cultural invariance studies (BE, AT, DE, IE, FI, NL, ZA, JP)
- Normative data
- Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
- Licence
- copyrighted - author permission
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- Reference
- Schaufeli, W.B., Desart, S., & De Witte, H. (2020). Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) - Development, validity and reliability. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(24), 9495.
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