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Research Article

Psychometric Properties of the Serbian Version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey: A Validation Study among Anesthesiologists from Belgrade Teaching Hospitals

Table 3

Exploratory factor analysis of the Serbian version of the MBI-HSS.


Original MBI items	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 4	Factor 5
Original MBI items	EE	DP	PA	EPI	FPB

Emotional exhaustion (EE)
() Feel emotionally drained from work	0.85^1,2	−0.09	−0.05	−0.11	−0.11
() Feel used up at the end of the workday	0.85^1,2	−0.11	−0.07	−0.01	−0.08
() Feel fatigued when getting up in the morning	0.79^1,2	0.01	0.02	−0.13	0.03
() Feel like at the end of the rope	0.59^1,2	0.21	0.12	0.31	0.01
() Feel burned out from work	0.88^1,2	−0.06	−0.02	0.29	−0.10
() Feel frustrated by job	0.65^1,2	0.06	−0.25	−0.08	0.04
() Feel working too hard on the job	0.82^1,2	0.01	−0.01	0.34	0.01
() Working with people puts too much stress	0.52^1,2	−0.05	0.06	−0.28	0.23
() Working with patients is a strain	0.61^1,2	−0.03	0.10	−0.05	0.32

Personal accomplishment (PA)
() Can easily understand patients’ feelings	0.14	−0.41	0.52^1,2	−0.12	0.13
() Deal effectively with the patients’ problems	0.23	0.07	0.66^1,2	−0.02	−0.40
() Feel positively influencing people’s lives	0.01	−0.07	0.24	0.74^1,3	0.15
() Feel very energetic	0.05	0.02	0.01	000.83^1,3	−0.01
() Can easily create a relaxed atmosphere	−0.13	0.03	0.53^1,2	−0.13	−0.46
() Feel exhilarated after working with patients	−0.16	−0.14	0.58^1,2	0.0.0505	−0.18
() Have accomplished worthwhile things in job	0.08	0.14	0.61^1,2	0.21	−0.06
() Deal with emotional problems calmly	−0.13	0.05	0.72^1,2	0.08	0.16

Depersonalization (DP)
() Treat patients as impersonal “objects”	0.13	0.83^1,2	−0.06	0.01	−0.32
() Become more callous toward people	−0.10	0.83^1,2	0.05	0.04	0.17
() Worry that job is hardening emotionally	0.30	0.47^1,2	0.14	0.05	0.30
() Don’t really care what happens to patients	−0.20	0.77^1,2	0.04	−0.12	0.12
() Feel patients blame me for their problems	0.07	0.03	0.12	0.05	0.79^1,3

Notes: ¹highest factor loadings for each factor; ²factor loadings corresponding to the factors in the original version; ³factor loadings indicate highest loadings on factors other than the original ones.