Work-Related Burnout (CBI, 7 items)

Answer the seven work-related burnout questions of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI). An average score from 0 to 100 on this subscale appears when at least four questions are answered. English only.

English only. A Japanese version is not provided because a validated Japanese text and permission to translate have not been confirmed.

This page presents the work-related burnout part of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI): seven questions about exhaustion that you perceive as related to your work. The first three questions ask to what degree; the last four ask how often.

This is a separate seven-question scale. It is not the 20-statement burnout-at-work quiz we first reviewed as a reference, and its result is not equivalent to that quiz.

The CBI authors recommend mixing these questions with questions on other topics, to avoid stereotyped response patterns. Here the seven questions are shown on their own, which differs from that recommendation.

English only. A Japanese version is not provided because a validated Japanese text and permission to translate have not been confirmed.

The score describes your answers on this subscale only. It is not a medical assessment or diagnosis, and it has no severity level, cut-off, ranking, percentile or risk percentage. It is not advice about your job.

Your answers stay in this page’s memory. They are not saved, not put in the address, and not sent to analytics, advertising or this site. Reloading, leaving the page or starting over clears them.

Source and required citation

Borritz M et al.: Burnout among employees in human service work: design and baseline findings of the PUMA study. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2006;34:49–58.

Questionnaire: Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (English version used in the PUMA study), part two, published by the National Research Centre for the Working Environment (NFA), Denmark, which permits its use with this citation.

How it works

Each answer is scored 100, 75, 50, 25 or 0, from the first to the last answer choice. The seventh question is scored in reverse (0, 25, 50, 75, 100). The score is the average of the answered questions. At least four of seven must be answered. The exact average is rounded once, to one decimal place, for display. The CBI authors recommend mixing these questions with questions on other topics, to avoid stereotyped response patterns. Here the seven questions are shown on their own, which differs from that recommendation. Borritz M et al.: Burnout among employees in human service work: design and baseline findings of the PUMA study. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2006;34:49–58.

NFA: Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) · NFA: CBI scales (PDF, English)

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This is a separate seven-question scale. It is not the 20-statement burnout-at-work quiz we first reviewed as a reference, and its result is not equivalent to that quiz.

English only. A Japanese version is not provided because a validated Japanese text and permission to translate have not been confirmed.

Your answers stay in this page’s memory. They are not saved, not put in the address, and not sent to analytics, advertising or this site. Reloading, leaving the page or starting over clears them.

Source and required citation

Borritz M et al.: Burnout among employees in human service work: design and baseline findings of the PUMA study. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2006;34:49–58.