Work characteristics and sickness absence in burnout and nonburnout groups: A study of Swedish health care workers.

Abstract

The aim of this study was to search for constellations of work characteristics that discriminate people who experience burnout from those who do not, and also from those who score high in exhaustion but not in disengagement, and vice versa. The study is based on data from 3,719 employees in a County Council in Sweden. Discriminant analysis revealed that four burnout categories (nonburnout, disengaged, exhausted, and burnout), related in different ways to selfreported work characteristics. The proportions of respondents with overtime, sickness absence, and sickness presence were higher in the burnout and the exhausted groups compared with the nonburnout group. The most common professions in the burnout group were, unexpectedly, dental nurses, secretaries, and service staff.

Oldenburg Burnout Inventory - student version: cultural adaptation and validation into Portuguese

“…Despite any discussion, it is worth noting that so far the psychometric properties of OLBI had been tested only on workers from various fields (Demerouti et al, 2001;Demerouti et al, 2003;Demerouti et al, 2010; & Nachreiner, 1998;Halbesleben & Demerouti, 2005, Peterson et al, 2008, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to use this inventory and test its properties when applied to students. The results of this study confirm the two-dimensional structure of OLBI, previously described by Demerouti et al (2001), Demerouti et al (2003), Demerouti et al (2010), Demerouti and Nachreiner (1998) and Halbesleben and Demerouti (2005), however, it should be emphasized that to achieve adequate factorial validity, an item of each dimension of the instrument was excluded (Figure 1).…”

“…This instrument was proposed originally in German, and was based on a theoretical model that assumes that Burnout is a twodimensional syndrome that can occur regardless of the individual's occupation. The validity of OLBI was tested in different population groups (Demerouti et al, 2001;Demerouti et al, 2003;Demerouti, Mostert, & Bakker, 2010;Halbesleben & Demerouti, 2005;Peterson, Demerouti, Bergstrom, Asberg, & Nygren, 2008).…”

Burnout in dental students: effectiveness of different methods

“…Peterson et al 16 (2008) had already proposed cutoff points for OLBI's Exhaustion (≥2.25) and Disengagement (≥2.10) dimensions, based on MBI-GS. However, these cutoff points were proposed by the authors based on the data collected from a normative population of professionals from different areas.…”

“…Thus, the authors proposed the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI) which consists of two dimensions, Exhaustion and Disengagement. The OLBI was proposed to assess the Burnout Syndrome in the general population, and studies point to its validity [14][15][16] . This instrument was originally proposed in German, and later adapted and validated into English, by Halbesleben, Demerouti 15 (2005).…”

Salud laboral y bienestar: Incorporación de modelos positivos a la comprensión y prevención de los riesgos psicosociales del trabajo

“…Otro de los modelos más influyentes en POHP para explicar el bienestar laboral, ha sido el modelo de demandas y recursos laborales [14][15][16][17][18] que especifica cómo los trabajadores pueden orientarse y conseguir el bienestar laboral a través de la equilibrada interacción de las demandas y los recursos laborales. Las demandas laborales se refieren a los aspectos físicos y psicosociales de la organización que requieren un importante esfuerzo, y coste físico y psicológico (p.…”