An Italian Adaptation of the Burnout Assessment Tool-Core Symptoms (BAT-C) for Students

Autor/inn/en	Romano, Luciano; Angelini, Giacomo; Consiglio, Piermarco; Fiorilli, Caterina
Titel	An Italian Adaptation of the Burnout Assessment Tool-Core Symptoms (BAT-C) for Students
Quelle	In: Education Sciences, 12 (2022), Artikel 124 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Romano, Luciano) ORCID (Angelini, Giacomo) ORCID (Fiorilli, Caterina)
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2227-7102
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Burnout; Measures (Individuals); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Fatigue (Biology); Cognitive Processes; Emotional Problems; Factor Structure; Test Reliability; Test Validity; Middle School Students; Factor Analysis; Stress Variables; Scores; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Burn out (Psychology); Burnout-syndrom; Burnout-Syndrom; Messdaten; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Fatigue; Ermüdung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Faktorenstruktur; Testreliabilität; Testvalidität; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Faktorenanalyse; Italien
Abstract	Burnout is psychological, physical, and emotional suffering that may affect students with low or inadequate resources to face stressful events at school. Although the existing instruments are used worldwide to assess school burnout risk, they show several flaws and mainly focus on the emotional facets of the syndrome. No previous studies have developed a multi-component tool to reveal students' burnout by simultaneously analyzing cognitive, behavioral, and emotional problems. The central core of the current study is to adapt the Burnout Assessment Tool-Core symptoms (BAT-C; Schaufeli et al., 2020), comprising four subscales, exhaustion, mental distance, cognitive impairment, and emotional impairment, for a sample of Italian students. The factor structure, the reliability, and the validity of the scale are investigated. The participants are 745 middle school students (male, 52.2%; aged 9-13, M = 11.84, and SD = 1.21). Confirmatory factor analyses confirmed the best fit of the second-order model (four first-order factors and one second-order factor). Specifically, four factors were loaded onto a main high-order factor, which constitutes the BAT-C. Our findings support the Italian adaptation of the BAT-C for students' samples as a valid instrument for measuring the core symptoms of school burnout. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/4/11