The test presented here is the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI), developed by Evangelia Demerouti and colleagues at the University of Oldenburg in Germany as a free alternative to the commercially licensed Maslach Burnout Inventory. It is a 16-item questionnaire split into two independent scales of 8 items each: exhaustion (physical, cognitive, and emotional fatigue related to work) and disengagement (distancing yourself from your work, losing interest, or feeling cynical about what you do). Unlike scales built entirely from negatively worded statements, the OLBI mixes four positively worded and four negatively worded items within each scale, which helps reduce response bias.
The test is self-administered and takes about 5 minutes. Each item is rated on a 4-point scale from "Strongly disagree" to "Strongly agree." The OLBI does not have official clinical cut-off scores — the categories used here are based on thresholds suggested by research on Swedish healthcare workers (Peterson et al., 2008), rescaled to a 0–100 range for each subscale to match the format used across our other tests. The result is not a medical diagnosis and does not replace a consultation with a professional.
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