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Gil-Monte PR, Espejo B, Checa I, Gil-LaOrden P, Angeline J K, Carlotto MS, Converso D, Deroncele-Acosta Á, Figueiredo-Ferraz H, Galarza L, Gómez-Ortiz V, Grau-Alberola E, Labarthe J, Llorca-Pellicer M, Mekala V C, Misiolek-Marín A, Román-Cao E, Salas-Blas E, Schoenenberger S, Unda-Rojas S, Viotti S. Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance of the Spanish Burnout Inventory Among Professionals Across 17 Countries and Regions. Appl Res Qual Life 2022; 18:869-892. [PMID: 36345422 PMCID: PMC9631596 DOI: 10.1007/s11482-022-10108-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2022] [Accepted: 09/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Abstract
Studies on the prevalence of burnout in professionals in service organizations who work in direct contact with the clients or users of the organization have concluded that burnout is a serious health disorder that has increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A significant advantage of the Spanish Burnout Inventory (SBI) over other instruments is that it provides a broader conceptualization of burnout by including feelings of guilt as a dimension of burnout to explain its development. However, the measurement invariance of the SBI across countries has not been investigated. The purpose of this study was to test the measurement invariance of the SBI among professionals across 17 countries and regions in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, and in different languages. All the countries showed a good fit to the four-factor model, except the Indian sample, which was excluded from the measurement invariance study. Using the alignment method, it was possible to verify the scalar measurement invariance of the four SBI factors across 15 countries and one Spanish region (16 samples). The comparison of estimated latent means indicates that France is the country with the lowest scores on the Enthusiasm factor and the highest scores on the negative factors (Exhaustion, Indolence, and Guilt). In contrast, the Andean countries, Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador, show the highest latent means on the Enthusiasm factor and the lowest means on the negative factors. These results support the validity of the SBI in the countries and regions in Europe and Latin America included in this study.
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Affiliation(s)
- Pedro R. Gil-Monte
- Unidad de Investigación Psicosocial de la Conducta Organizacional (UNIPSICO), Valencia, Spain
- Faculty of Psychology (Dep. Methodology of Behavioral Sciences), University of Valencia, Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 21; 46010, Valencia, Spain
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- Faculty of Psychology (Dep. Methodology of Behavioral Sciences), University of Valencia, Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 21; 46010, Valencia, Spain
| | - Irene Checa
- Faculty of Psychology (Dep. Methodology of Behavioral Sciences), University of Valencia, Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 21; 46010, Valencia, Spain
| | - Pedro Gil-LaOrden
- Unidad de Investigación Psicosocial de la Conducta Organizacional (UNIPSICO), Valencia, Spain
- Faculty of Psychology (Dep. Methodology of Behavioral Sciences), University of Valencia, Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 21; 46010, Valencia, Spain
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- Unidad de Investigación Psicosocial de la Conducta Organizacional (UNIPSICO), Valencia, Spain
- Universidad Internacional de Valencia (VIU), Valencia, Spain
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- Unidad de Investigación Psicosocial de la Conducta Organizacional (UNIPSICO), Valencia, Spain
- Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Logroño, Spain
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- Unidad de Investigación Psicosocial de la Conducta Organizacional (UNIPSICO), Valencia, Spain
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- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, FES Zaragoza, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
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- Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy
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