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This study examined the psychometric properties of two selected scales-’personal burnout’ and ’work-related burnout’-from the Chinese version of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (C-CBI) in 384 employees from two companies in Taiwan. A selfadministered questionnaire was used that included the two C-CBI scales, the scales of mental health, vitality and general health from the Short Form 36 (SF-36), perceived level of job stress, job satisfaction, working hours, as well as measures for psychological job demands, job control, work-related social support, and over-commitment to work. Both the C-CBI personal burnout scale and work-related burnout scale had high internal consistency and were correlated well with other health, job characteristics, and perception of work measures; furthermore, exploratory factor analysis extracted two empirical factors. However, the two C-CBI scales were highly correlated in the present population and appeared to measure overlapping concepts. Some comments and suggestions were raised for further improvement.
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This study was supported by the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Council of Labor Affairs (IOSH93-M308), and a research grant from the National Science Council (NSC-93-2320-B002-083), Taiwan. The authors thank volunteers who kindly agreed to participate in this study.
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Yeh, WY., Cheng, Y., Chen, CJ. et al. Psychometric properties of the chinese version of copenhagen burnout inventory among employees in two companies in Taiwan. Int. J. Behav. Med. 14, 126–133 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03000183
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