Testing the Francis Burnout Inventory among Anglican clergy in England

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Psychological Predictors of Professional Burnout among Priests, Religious Brothers, and Religious Sisters in Italy: The Dark Triad versus the Bright Trinity?

“…According to the balanced affect model of professional burnout and clergy work-related psychological well-being, enhancing satisfaction in ministry ameliorates the negative consequences of emotional exhaustion in ministry. To some extent, the negative effects of high levels of emotional exhaustion in ministry are reduced by high levels of satisfaction in ministry (Francis et al, 2011b;Francis et al, 2017a, b, c;Francis et al, 2019a;Village et al, 2018).…”

Factor structure, reliability and validity of the Francis Burnout Inventory Revised among Catholic priests and religious sisters in Italy

“…Finally, the present study built on the earlier work reported by Francis, Village, Robbins, andWulff (2011), Francis, Laycock, andBrewster (2017), Francis, Laycock, and Crea (2017), Francis, Crea, and Laycock (2017), Village, Payne, and Francis (2018), and Francis, Laycock, and Ratter (2019) to test the construct validity of the balanced affect model of clergy work-related psychological wellbeing as operationalised by the Francis Burnout Inventory. These new data confirmed that the two scales of the Francis Burnout Inventory Revised worked in the same way as the two original scales, by demonstrating the significance of the interaction term between emotional exhaustion and satisfaction in ministry against an independent measure of burnout.…”

“…The fourth replication study by Village, Payne, and Francis (2018) among 358 Anglican priests serving in the Church in Wales employed a single item index of thoughts of leaving ministry since ordination (no, once or twice, several times, and frequently) as an independent measure of burnout. The fifth replication study by Francis, Laycock, and Ratter (2019) among 99 Anglican clergy serving in a rural diocese in the Church of England employed the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (Tennant, et al, 2007) as an independent measure of wellbeing. All five replication studies, conducted among diverse samples and employing different dependent variables, supported the conclusion advanced by the original study reported by Francis, Village, Robbins, and Wulff (2011).…”

Wellbeing and perceptions of receiving support among Church of England clergy during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic

“…Studies employing the (Maslach & Jackson, 1986) model of burnout among Anglican clergy serving in the Church of England or the Church in Wales have been reported by Francis and Rutledge (2000), Rutledge and Francis (2004), Hills et al (2004), Francis andTurton (2004a, 2004b), Randall (2004Randall ( , 2005Randall ( , 2007Randall ( , 2013a, and Turton and Francis (2007). Studies employing the (Francis, Village, Robbins & Wulff, 2011) model of burnout among Anglican clergy serving in the Church of England or the Church in Wales have been reported by Robbins and Francis (2010), Brewster et al (2011), Randall (2013a, 2013b, 2015, Francis, Payne, et al (2013), Francis et al ( , 2017, Francis, Ratter, et al (2015), Village et al (2018), Francis, Emslie, et al (2019), and Francis, Laycock, et al (2019). Set within the broader context of international studies employing the same measures of work-related psychological health and wellbeing, a number of conclusions can be drawn regarding the correlates, antecedents, and consequences of poor work-related psychological health among clergy (see Francis, 2018).…”