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MBI: General Survey for Students

 

Authors: Christina Maslach, Susan E. Jackson, Michael P. Leiter, & Wilmar B. Schaufeli

Recognized as the leading measure of burnout, the Maslach Burnout Inventory™ (MBI) is validated by the extensive research that has been conducted in the more than 35 years since its initial publication.

MBI-General Survey for Students MBI-GS (S): The MBI-GS (S) was designed for use with adult students in college and university.

The MBI-GS (S) addresses three scales:

  • Exhaustion measures feelings of being overextended and exhausted by one's studies.
  • Cynicism measures an indifference or a distant attitude towards your studies.
  • Professional Efficacy measures satisfaction with past and present accomplishments, and it explicitly assesses an individual's expectations of continued effectiveness at school.
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Features of the MBI-GS (S)

Purpose: Measure burnout.

Length: 16 items

Average completion time: 10-15 minutes

Target population: Adult students

Administration: For individual or group administration

Uses of the MBI-GS (S)

  • Assess burnout in adult students
  • Assess and validate the three-dimensional structure of burnout
  • Understand the nature of burnout for developing effective interventions

Scales:

Exhaustion
Cynicism
Professional Efficacy

Translations

For more information on translations of the MBI-GS (S) into languages other than English, please click here.

About Burnout

For more information on the topic of burnout, please click here.

About Burnout

Burnout is a syndrome of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment that can occur among individuals who work with people in some capacity. A key aspect of the burnout syndrome is increased feelings of emotional exhaustion -- as emotional resources are depleted, workers feel they are no longer able to give of themselves at a psychological level. Another aspect of the burnout syndrome is the development of depersonalization, that is, negative, cynical attitudes and feelings about one's clients. This callous or even dehumanized perception of others can lead staff members to view their clients as somehow deserving of their troubles. ... A third aspect of the burnout syndrome, reduced personal accomplishment, refers to the tendency to evaluate oneself negatively, particularly with regard to one's work with clients. Workers may feel unhappy about themselves and dissatisfied with their accomplishments on the job.

The consequences of burnout are potentially very serious for workers, their clients, and the larger institutions in which they interact. --From the Maslach Burnout Inventory Manual, 1996

An excellent review of the implications of burnout on the brain is available from the APS Observer.  This article also includes discussion of the MBI and Areas of Worklife Survey constructs in burnout.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which MBI form should I use?
What is the relationship between the MBI scales?
Why isn’t there a single burnout score, or can I just use the Emotional Exhaustion scale?
Can I use cut-scores to identify a state of burnout?
How do I calculate critical boundaries for the Burnout Profiles of my group?
Why do I need to look at the person’s life context and not just their burnout level?
How can burnout be prevented or reduced?
What is the General Population Norm in the MBI-HSS and MBI-HSS (MP) reports?
What are limitations and issues with using abbreviated forms of the MBI (e.g., 2-item MBI, 9-item MBI, etc.)?

 

MBI Introduction Sheets and Other Information

The Problem with Cut-Offs for the Maslach Burnout Inventory
INTRO SHEET: Maslach Burnout Toolkit for Human Services
INTRO SHEET: Maslach Burnout Toolkit for Medical Personnel
INTRO SHEET: Maslach Burnout Toolkit for Educators
INTRO SHEET: Maslach Burnout Toolkit for General Use

Areas of Worklife Survey
The organizational context of burnout.
Maslach Burnout Inventory™ (MBI)
Recognized for more than a decade as the leading measure of burnout. The MBI assesses professional burnout in human services, education, business, and government professions.
Maslach Burnout Toolkit™
Combines the AWS and MBI forms to measure burnout with worklife context.