The Factorial Validity of a Teacher Burnout Measure (Educators Survey) Administered to a Sample of Beginning Teachers in Elementary and Secondary Schools in California

Abstract

For the Educators Survey, an inventory designed to assess teacher burnout in each of three scales representing constructs of Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization, and Personal Accomplishment, both exploratory (orthogonal and oblique) factor analyses and confirmatory factor analyses of the correlation matrix of 22 items administered to a sample of 133 elementary and secondary school beginning teachers lent support to a three-factor structure. It was concluded that this multidimensional instrument provides a promising level of construct validity for assessing teacher burnout.

A test of the Maslach Burnout Inventory in three samples of healthcare professionals

“…However, they did not cross-validate this model in a second sample. Gold et al (1992) reported support for a three-factor model in a study of 133 elementary and secondary school teachers. However, this study had two serious shortcomings: (1) the goodness-of-t (GFI) statistics reported in the study do not meet acceptable standards for model t (for example the GFI and the adjusted goodness-of-t (AGFI) reported are .79 and .75, respectively, whereas values of .90 or more are required for model t, see Bentler, 1992); and (2) no cross-validation was performed.…”

“…Recent studies using structural equation modelling to examine the factor structure of the MBI include Lee, and Ashforth's (1990) comparative study of the three-factor model with both one-factor and two-factor models, Evans, and Fischer's (1993) comparative study of teachers and computer company employees, Byrne's (1991Byrne's ( , 1993Byrne's ( , 1994 factorial validity studies of the three-factor model in samples of teachers, Yadama and Drake's (1995) study of child protection service workers, Schaufeli, and van Dierendonck's (1993) study of Dutch nurses, Schaufeli, Daamen, and van Mierlo's (1994) study of Dutch secondary school teachers, and Gold, Roth, Wright, Michael, and Chen's (1992) study of elementary and secondary school teachers. However, each of these SEM validation studies has suŠ ered from one or more of the following methodological limitations : (1) allowing correlated error terms in the tested model; (2) allowing items to load on multiple factors in the tested model; (3) unacceptable levels for goodness-of-t tests ; (4) using summative measures in the SEM analysis; and (5) failing to cross-validate the tested model across two or more samples.…”

The Oswald Clergy Burnout Scale: Reliability, Factor Structure and Preliminary Application Among Australian Clergy

“…Normative values for the three dimensions were established with data collected from a representative range of workers in the social sector, including nurses, social workers, teachers, police officers and psychologists. Subsequent factor analytic examinations, for example by Fimian andBlanton (1987), Green andWalkey (1988), Gold, Roth, Wright, Michael, and Chen (1992), Soederfeldt, Soederfeldt, Warg, and Ohlson (1996) and Tang (1998) have provided supportive evidence for the threedimensional structure of burnout among various samples of human service personnel.…”

Burnout and depressive symptoms in teachers: Factor structure and construct validity of the Maslach Burnout inventory‐educators survey among elementary and secondary school teachers in Hungary

“…Several researchers have questioned the three‐factor structure Maslach and Jackson () originally specified. Most of the studies supported the original three‐factor model across different occupational groups (Bria, Spânu, Băban, & Dumitraşcu, ; Gil Monte, ; Loera, Converso, & Viotti, ; Schutte, Toppinen, Kalimo, & Schaufeli, ), including teachers (Kokkinos, ; Silva, Hewage, & Fonseka, ); however, in order to support the original model, other users have requested various modifications, such as eliminating items, allowing items to load on more than one factor, or allowing correlation between the factors (Aluja, Blanch, & García, ; Gold, Roth, Wright, Michael, & Chin‐Yi, ; Schaufeli, Daamen, & Van Mierlo, ). The results from a meta‐analysis including 45 studies of confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses, both descriptive and empirical analyses, showed substantial support for a correlated three‐factor model, but solutions with more or fewer factors also received modest support (Worley, Vassar, Wheeler, & Barnes, ).…”