The Factor Structure of a Measure of Burnout Specific to Clergy, and Its Trial Application with Respect to Some Individual Personal Differences
A 30-item measure of burnout appropriate to members of the clerical profession was constructed around the Maslachian dimensions of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and lack of personal achievement, and administered to a sample of 1071 Anglican stipendiary ministers in the UK. Confirmatory fac...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2004
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Review of religious research
Year: 2004, Volume: 46, Issue: 1, Pages: 27-42 |
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| Summary: | A 30-item measure of burnout appropriate to members of the clerical profession was constructed around the Maslachian dimensions of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and lack of personal achievement, and administered to a sample of 1071 Anglican stipendiary ministers in the UK. Confirmatory factor analyses showed that the measure was best represented by a three-factor solution, although the overall fit was poor. Successive exploratory and confirmatory analyses, combined with the step-wise removal of ambiguous or poorly fitting items, produced a refined 20-item, three factor scale with satisfactory psychometric properties. However, the three Maslachian factors were strongly intercorrelated. The results provided by the compact scale suggested that the clergy were not particularly subject to the adverse effects of burnout and that self-reported job satisfaction was high. Separate hierarchical regressions were conducted for each of the three dimensions with respect to several personality, demographic and job-related variables. Most of the variability in the data was accounted for by the intercorrelations among the three dimensions, but neuroticism was a significant predictor of exhaustion, psychoticism of depersonalization, and extra-version of achievement. Few of the demographic and job-related variables were significant predictors. However, marital status was a significant predictor of exhaustion, age was a negative predictor of depersonalization, and job-satisfaction was greatest in populous parishes. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3512251 |