Emotional Exhaustion 5-item Short
Psychology: Mental HealthReliability: alpha 0.915 sample items
About this scale
A 5-item short form of MBI emotional-exhaustion subscale, validated for use when survey length is constrained.
Sample item(s)
“I feel emotionally drained from my work”
“I feel used up at the end of the workday”
“Working with people all day is really a strain for me”
“Working with people directly puts too much stress on me”
“I feel I'm working too hard on my job”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.91. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Useful for medical-burnout research.
Source & citation
West, C. P., Dyrbye, L. N., Sloan, J. A., & Shanafelt, T. D. (2009): Single item measures of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization are useful for assessing burnout in medical professionals. Journal of General Internal Medicine, Vol. 24, No. 12, pp. 1318–1321.
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