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Work: attitudes and wellbeing

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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