TY - JOUR
T1 - Within- and between-person factor structure of the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory
T2 - Analysis of a diary study using multilevel confirmatory factor analysis
AU - Gruszczynska, Ewa
AU - Basinska, Beata A
AU - Schaufeli, Wilmar B
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Science Centre, Poland, under Grant no. 2015/17/ B/HS6/04178 awarded to BB (EG and WP are the grant team members). https://www.ncn.gov.pl/?language=en The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Gruszczynska et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2021/5
Y1 - 2021/5
N2 - The study examined the factor structure of burnout, as measured with the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory. The participants were 235 employees of a public administration agency who assessed their burnout online for 10 consecutive working days. Two models were tested with multilevel confirmatory factor analysis, assuming the same one or two-factor structure at the within- and between-person levels. Both models showed a reasonable fit to the data, but due to a strong correlation between exhaustion and disengagement and low within-person reliability for disengagement, a unidimensional model seems more valid. A cross-level invariance was not confirmed for either of the structures, showing that factor loadings for the same items differ significantly between the levels. This suggests that burnout is not the same latent variable at each level; rather, there are factors other than daily burnout that influence person-level scores and ignoring these across-level discrepancies may lead to biased conclusions.
AB - The study examined the factor structure of burnout, as measured with the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory. The participants were 235 employees of a public administration agency who assessed their burnout online for 10 consecutive working days. Two models were tested with multilevel confirmatory factor analysis, assuming the same one or two-factor structure at the within- and between-person levels. Both models showed a reasonable fit to the data, but due to a strong correlation between exhaustion and disengagement and low within-person reliability for disengagement, a unidimensional model seems more valid. A cross-level invariance was not confirmed for either of the structures, showing that factor loadings for the same items differ significantly between the levels. This suggests that burnout is not the same latent variable at each level; rather, there are factors other than daily burnout that influence person-level scores and ignoring these across-level discrepancies may lead to biased conclusions.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0251257
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0251257
M3 - Article
C2 - 33989326
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 16
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - PLoS One
JF - PLoS One
IS - 5
M1 - e0251257
ER -