Introducing the scr-OLBI

Abstract

Abstract. The Greek version of the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI), used to assess exhaustion and disengagement from work, was analyzed using item response theory analyses to investigate the dimensionality and the psychometric properties of the measure’s items. The OLBI was administered to 617 Greek employees, of whom 314 also participated in the validation study. The results indicated that four negatively keyed items from the original measure exhibited excellent psychometric properties (item/test information functions) and were used for the construction of a shorter version of the OLBI. The scr-OLBI, composed of the first letters of the word “screening,” was tested for differential item functioning between male and female employees; no bias was detected in relation to gender. Our results reveal that the scr-OLBI is a reliable and valid indicator of work-related burnout, which appears to be functionally equivalent to the original version both theoretically and empirically, yet exhibits the advantages of a short measure.

Taking Stock of Two Years of PTAD – A First Résumé and Outlook

“…PTAD also wants to be the home of papers spanning a broad methodological range. While there is a dominance of correlational and factor analytical methods, we have also published papers using item response theory (IRT) methods (Mitropoulou & Zampetakis, 2022) or exploratory graph analysis (Golino et al, 2021). We encourage authors to use a broad range of methods to utilize the methods' unique capabilities to gather information about the quality of the measures focused.…”

“…Measures researched capture, for example, cognitive abilities (Brauer et al, 2022; Dahm, 2022; Gnambs et al, 2021; Golino et al, 2021; Krieger et al, 2021), clinically relevant traits (Adhiatma & Halim, 2021; Ching et al, 2021; Lorenz & Algner, 2021), or personality traits (Dierickx et al, 2020; Gallardo-Pujol, Rouco, et al., 2022; Rouco et al, 2022). In addition, specific assessment contexts come from, for example, the educational area (Gnambs et al, 2021) or industrial and organizational psychology (Mitropoulou & Zampetakis, 2022; Nitzschner et al, 2022; Paruzel et al, 2022). Not surprisingly, many papers offer shortened or short test versions of established measures (Gallardo-Pujol, Rouco, et al, 2022; Krieger et al, 2021).…”