The psychometric properties and measurement invariance of the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT-23) in South Africa

Beer, Leon T. de; Schaufeli, Wilmar B.; Witte, Hans De

doi:10.1186/s12889-022-13978-0

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“…Correlation matrix for the Job Demands-Resources model.Furthermore, H 3a and H 3b were also supported as the BAT-12 was found to be invariant for both gender and ethnicity. This result is in line with the measurement invariance tests conducted for the BAT-23 within the South African context that showed strong measurement invariance for gender and ethnicity(De Beer et al, 2022) and other invariance tests that have shown the cross-cultural validity of theBAT (e.g. De Beer et al, 2020).…”

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Investigating the validity of the short form Burnout Assessment Tool: A job demands-resources approach

Beer

Schaufeli

Bakker

2022

AJOPA

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the short form Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT-12). As a result of the pandemic, job stress has been compounded and the use of conceptually grounded and accurate measures is needed to identify burnout risks within specific organisations and the overall workforce. The study sample comprised 660 employees from various occupational settings who filled out an online survey. Latent variable methods with ordinal categorical data were implemented to model the data and to test the hypotheses for the study. Results showed that the proposed second-order factor model of the BAT-12 showed a good fit to the data and was invariant across gender and ethnicity. In addition, burnout – as operationalised with the BAT-12 – played the hypothesised mediating role in the Job Demands-Resources model. The BAT-12 also showed convergent validity with the Maslach Burnout Inventory. The authors conclude that BAT-12 is a robust instrument with adequate psychometric properties to measure burnout risk and present a freely available online application for employees to estimate their risk of burnout.

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Investigating the validity of the short form Burnout Assessment Tool: A job demands-resources approach

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Bakker

2022

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“…This assumption can also lead to inflated factor correlations. Instead, ESEM allows items to load on nontarget factors with target rotation close to zero (De Beer et al, 2022).…”

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Measurement invariance of the Domain‐Specific Risk‐Taking (DOSPERT) scale

Welindt

Condon

Weston

2023

Behavioral Decision Making

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Group‐level risk attitudes are often studied across psychology domains (e.g., binge drinking among college students, and driving risk by gender). In measuring these differences by self‐report, such work relies on the assumption that those measures of risk attitude function equivalently across demographic groups—that is, that the measure employed has the property of measurement invariance. Here, we examine the measurement invariance properties of a widely used risk measure, the Domain‐Specific Risk‐Taking (DOSPERT) scale across different demographic groups. A secondary goal was to determine whether a hierarchical or bifactor model better fits the data. Data were collected from Prolific using a stratified sampling approach to ensure sufficient and unconfounded sampling of sex, socioeconomic status (SES), and race (N = 412). Sample groups consisted of approximately 50 participants each, based on the intersection of three dichotomized demographic groups (high vs. low SES, White vs. non‐White, and female vs. male). Subjects completed the 30‐item form of the DOSPERT assessing likelihood, perceived benefit, and riskiness of the same 30 behaviors. The bifactor models showed a superior fit to the hierarchical models and were used in subsequent analyses. These analyses demonstrated that no models fit generally acceptable criteria for configural fit, and many models additionally fail cutoffs for metric and scalar invariance. This study adds to findings that the DOSPERT does not perform equivalently across demographic groups. We suggest development of a scale of risk that is invariant across commonly assessed demographic factors.

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“…The MBI-GS is a valid and reliable tool to measure burnout, which has been used by researchers in South Africa in several studies with similar samples ( Peltzer et al, 2003 ; Thomas and Valli, 2006 ). A validation study in South Africa on the BAT ( De Beer et al, 2022 ) was underway during the times of this research, thus the preference of the MBI-GS. It was used in phase I to evaluate and measure the level of burnout objectively, which was the final criterion for selecting participants.…”

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Generation Y medical doctors’ experiences of a positive psychology 2.0 intervention for burnout in a South African public hospital

2022

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The aim of the research was to explore experiences of a Positive Psychology 2.0 (PP2.0) intervention for burnout among Generation Y medical doctors working in a South African public hospital. The emphasis was on the potential benefits and recommended intervention amendments in a specific cultural context of South Africa. A phenomenological approach was followed in the collective case study. The Maslach Burnout Inventory was administered in phases I and III to quantify the level of burnout. This study offers findings that could be incorporated into a bigger burnout intervention strategy in the South African public hospital, involving all stakeholders to ensure that burnout is combatted on a long-term basis. Furthermore, the findings emphasized certain culture-specific structural issues and the impact that the neglection of burnout has on newly qualified medical doctors working in a South African public hospital and patients in their care. Certain recommendations were made for the South African public hospital for future research in PP2.0 interventions and for facilitators working with burnout among newly qualified medical doctors.

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The psychometric properties and measurement invariance of the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT-23) in South Africa

Cited by 21 publications

References 34 publications

Investigating the validity of the short form Burnout Assessment Tool: A job demands-resources approach

Investigating the validity of the short form Burnout Assessment Tool: A job demands-resources approach

Measurement invariance of the Domain‐Specific Risk‐Taking (DOSPERT) scale

Generation Y medical doctors’ experiences of a positive psychology 2.0 intervention for burnout in a South African public hospital

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