Evidence of Validity for the Brazilian Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT-Brazil)

Ana Claudia Souza Vazquez; Clarissa Pinto Pizarro de Freitas; Wilmar B. Schaufeli; Hans De Witte; Claudio Simon Hutz

doi:10.15689/ap.2025.24.e23574

Evidence of Validity for the Brazilian Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT-Brazil)

Ana Claudia Souza Vazquez^*
, Clarissa Pinto Pizarro de Freitas
, Wilmar B. Schaufeli
, Hans De Witte
, Claudio Simon Hutz

^*Corresponding author for this work

Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
KU Leuven
North West University
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

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Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT-Brazil), a new measure of burnout. To assess validity evidence, the BAT-23 was administered to a sample of 2,223 Brazilian participants, while the BAT-12 was completed by 4,022 participants. Both samples included workers from the five regions of the country. The factorial validity and the reliability of the BAT-Brazil were examined through confirmatory factor analyses, which supported a hierarchical structure with four first-order factors and one second-order factor as the best-fitting model. Both versions of the scale demonstrated satisfactory internal consistency. Additionally, the external discriminant validity of the BAT-Brazil aligned with the Job Demands-Resources model. These findings provide initial evidence for the reliability and construct validity of the BAT-Brazil.

Original language	English
Article number	e23574
Number of pages	12
Journal	Avaliacao Psicologica
Volume	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15689/ap.2025.24.e23574
Publication status	Published - 2025

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All funding sources for the development of this study (data collection, analysis, and interpretation, as well as the writing of the results presented in this manuscript) were provided by the research project funded under the CNPq Universal Research Grant 06/2016.

Keywords

burnout
Job Demands–Resources model
occupational health
positive psychology

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