Factorial validity of the Cuestionario Breve de Burnout (Burnout Short Questionnaire)in a sample of teachers in Aragón

Abstract

This study examines the structure of the Cuestionario Breve de Burnout (CBB; Moreno, Bustos, Matallana y Millares, 1997) [Burnout Short Questionnaire]. This questionnaire evaluates the burnout syndrome as a process with antecedents being the features of the task and the way the job is organized. Burnout is evaluated from the three classical dimensions: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and lack of personal accomplishment. The CBB also assesses the consequences of the syndrome with a scale that measures physical, social, and psychological consequences. The results of the analysis of the principal components in a sample of teachers, confi rms the original structure of the antecedents and consequences scales, but not of the burnout scale. According to our study, the antecedents scale allows an independent estimation of the features of the organization and of the task, but the burnout and consequents scales only allow a general interpretation. We encountered differences depending on gender and teaching level.