Oldenburg Burnout Inventory.
OLBI
- What it measures
- Burnout with two dimensions: Exhaustion and Disengagement from work (both with positively and negatively worded items, allowing engagement scoring too).
- Length and format
- 16 (2 x 8). 4-pt agreement Likert (strongly agree -> strongly disagree) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- 20+ langs incl. EN, ES, EL (Greek), PT, ZH, etc.
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Demerouti, E., Bakker, A.B., Nachreiner, F., & Schaufeli, W.B. (2001). The job demands-resources model of burnout. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86(3), 499-512.
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