Measuring Job and Academic Burnout with the Oldeburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI): Factorial Invariance Across Samples and Countries

Published in Burnout Research, the following study examines the factor structure and measurement invariance of the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI) across different groups (German nurses vs. German students) and tested academic burnout across samples from different countries (Greek vs. German students). Burnout was measured with the German version of the OLBI. The OLBI consists of 16 items, eight of which measure the exhaustion dimension of burnout (e.g., “There are days when I feel tired before I arrive at work”) and eight measuring the disengagement dimension of burnout (e.g., “It happens more and more often that I talk about my work in a negative way”). Authors conclude that the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory is a robust instrument for the measurement of burnout in both work and academic settings.