Open AccessValidation and Reliability of the German Version of the School Burnout Inventory
Author(s) -
Frances Hoferichter,
Diana Raufelder,
Sabine Schweder,
Katariina SalmelaAro
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
zeitschrift für entwicklungspsychologie und pädagogische psychologie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.205
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2190-6262
pISSN - 0049-8637
DOI - 10.1026/0049-8637/a000248
Subject(s) - cynicism , burnout , psychology , german , reliability (semiconductor) , emotional exhaustion , validity , social psychology , cognition , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , applied psychology , psychometrics , psychiatry , power (physics) , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , politics , political science , law , history
. This study investigates the validity and reliability of the German version of the School Burnout Inventory (SBI-G) in 1,570 secondary-school students ( Mage = 14.11, SD = 0.78; 51.7 % girls). Results indicate that school burnout consists of two correlated but separate dimensions including (1) exhaustion at school, (2) cynicism toward the meaning of school and sense of inadequacy. The study revealed that school burnout can be measured as a two-factor model, which provided good reliability and validity indices. Further, we verified concurrent validity, finding that students suffering from general stress also reported overall school burnout as well as exhaustion, cynicism, and inadequacy. Students who exhibited cynicism and inadequacy also reported lower levels of behavioral, emotional, and cognitive school engagement, while exhausted students reported lower emotional school engagement but higher cognitive school engagement.