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Clergy Burnout: Two Different Measures

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A modified form of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) was used alongside the Francis Burnout Inventory’s two scales—the Scale of Emotional Exhaustion in Ministry (SEEM) and the Satisfaction in Ministry Scale (SIMS)—and the shorter form of Eysenck’s Revised Personality Questionnaire. The respondents were Anglican clergy in England and Wales in their seventh year in ministry. SEEM and SIMS were shown to map onto the same personality constructs as the MBI. This suggests that the Francis Burnout Inventory can be used satisfactorily to measure clergy burnout.

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The modified form of the Maslach Burnout Inventory for use among parochial clergy has been modified and reproduced by special permission of the publisher, Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto, CA 94303, from the MBI–Human Services Survey by Christina Maslach and Susan E. Jackson, copyright 1986 by Consulting Psychologists Press, Inc., all rights reserved. Further reproduction is prohibited without the publisher’s written consent. The publishers refused permission to publish the actual items from the modified form of the Maslach Burnout Inventory in papers reporting the research.

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Randall, K.J. Clergy Burnout: Two Different Measures. Pastoral Psychol 62, 333–341 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-012-0506-4

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