Open AccessCross‐cultural validation of factor structure in the Japanese Counselor Burnout Inventory
Author(s) -
YAGI DARRYL TAKIZO,
LEE JAYOUNG,
PUIG ANA,
LEE SANG MIN
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
japanese psychological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.392
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5884
pISSN - 0021-5368
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5884.2011.00469.x
Subject(s) - psychology , confirmatory factor analysis , burnout , construct validity , internal consistency , construct (python library) , reliability (semiconductor) , factor analysis , factor (programming language) , social psychology , structural equation modeling , psychometrics , clinical psychology , statistics , mathematics , computer science , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , programming language
This article describes the cross‐cultural validation of the Counselor Burnout Inventory (CBI; Lee, Baker, Cho, Heckathorn, Holland, Newgent, Ogle, Powell, Quinn, Wallace & Yu, 2007) on a sample of professional counselors and psychotherapists in Japan. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed to examine the validity of the CBI with three models: a one‐factor model, a five‐factor model, and a second‐order model. The results showed that the five‐factor model was a better fit and more parsimonious than both the one‐factor model and the second‐order factor model. Additionally, the internal consistency reliability for the CBI subscale scores proved equivalent to that found for other populations (e.g. American and Korean). The results suggest that counselor burnout is not a unidimensional construct but a multidimensional construct. Implications and recommendations for future research are provided.