The Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT): A Contribution to Italian Validation with Teachers’

Giacomo Angelini, Ilaria Buonomo, Paula Benevene, Piermarco Consiglio, Luciano Romano and Caterina Fiorilli
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Giacomo Angelini: Department of Human Sciences, University of Rome, LUMSA, 00193 Rome, Italy
Ilaria Buonomo: Department of Human Sciences, University of Rome, LUMSA, 00193 Rome, Italy
Paula Benevene: Department of Human Sciences, University of Rome, LUMSA, 00193 Rome, Italy
Piermarco Consiglio: Department of Human Sciences, University of Rome, LUMSA, 00193 Rome, Italy
Luciano Romano: Department of Human Sciences, University of Rome, LUMSA, 00193 Rome, Italy
Caterina Fiorilli: Department of Human Sciences, University of Rome, LUMSA, 00193 Rome, Italy

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 16, 1-18

Abstract: This study aims to validate the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) adapted to the Italian education sector. Teacher burnout is physical and emotional pain, due to prolonged exposure to school-related stress factors. Previous research has abundantly proven that preventive assessment of teachers’ risk level for burnout may reduce adverse outcomes. In this regard, new assessment tools, able to bring together evidence from fifty years of research on this topic, were mainly used to monitor burnout-risk levels in the school context. For the present work, 846 Italian teachers (Female, 91.1%; M age = 47.52; SD = 9.94) were involved in the study. Confirmatory factor analysis supported a four-factor structure for the core dimensions (BAT-C; exhaustion, mental distance, emotional impairment, cognitive impairment), and a two-factor structure for the secondary dimensions (BAT-S; psychological distress, psychosomatic complaints). The Italian version of the BAT-C and BAT-S has shown good internal consistency (respectively, α = 0.900 and ω = 0.913; α = 0.845 and ω = 0.857) and validity (all correlations between variables showed a p value < 0.01). Our findings support the Italian adaptation of the original version of the BAT as a valid instrument for measuring teachers’ burnout through principal and secondary symptoms.

Keywords: burnout; work-related stress; engagement; emotional exhaustion; teachers; BAT; Italian (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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