Maslach Burnout Inventory: Educators Survey (MBI-ES)

The Maslach Burnout Inventory: Educators Survey (MBI-ES) is a version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory measuring professional burnout among educators (teachers, staff, and volunteers). It contains 22 items examining emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment on a 7-point Likert scale ranging from “never” to “every day.”

Content

Category
Sub-Category
Domains
Domains (?) Burnout
Grades
Pre-Kindergarten,
Kindergarten,
1st Grade,
2nd Grade,
3rd Grade,
4th Grade,
5th Grade,
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade,
Post secondary
Languages
English,
Spanish,
Chinese,
Other
Other Language/s
Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Bahasa, Bulgarian, Creole, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
Respondent
Teacher

Administration Information

Length
22 items, 10-15 minutes
Administration
Computer

Access and Use

Price

Multiple kits at various prices are available, more information here https://www.mindgarden.com/316-mbi-educators-survey

Contact
Open Access
No
Use in Research

Brasfield, M. W., Lancaster, C., & Xu, Y. J. (2019). Wellness as a mitigating factor for teacher burnout. Journal of Education, 199(3), 166-178. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022057419864525 

Ghasemi, F., Herman, K. C., & Reinke, W. M. (2022). A cognitive-behavioral approach to teacher burnout: A randomized controlled trial of a group therapy program. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2022.2103118 

Pavlidou, K., Alevriadou, A., & Antoniou, A. S. (2022). Professional burnout in general and special education teachers: the role of interpersonal coping strategies. European Journal of Special Needs Education, 37(2), 191-205. https://doi.org/10.1080/08856257.2020.1857931

Psychometrics

Scoring
Computer scoring
Psychometric References

Aboagye, M. O., Qin, J., Qayyum, A., Antwi, C. O., Jababu, Y., & Affum-Osei, E. (2018). Teacher burnout in pre-schools: A cross-cultural factorial validity, measurement invariance and latent mean comparison of the Maslach Burnout Inventory, Educators Survey (MBI-ES). Children and Youth Services Review, 94, 186-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.09.041 

Maslach, C., & Jackson, S. E. (1981). The measurement of experienced burnout. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2(2), 99-113. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.4030020205 

Maslach, C., Jackson, S.E., Leiter, M.P. (2018). Maslach Burnout Inventory Manual (4th Edition). Mind Garden.

Ronfeldt, M., & Truwit, M. (2023). Considerations for use of teaching quality measures. EdInstruments Brief, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, Brown University. www.edinstruments.com/teaching.

Item Type
Likert

Psychometric Considerations

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