Practice question · True or false
A worker scoring high on emotional exhaustion alone meets the definition of burnout.
Hints
- How many components does the definition name?
- All three, together.
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False
Why
False. Burnout is defined by exhaustion, depersonalisation and reduced accomplishment together; exhaustion alone is exhaustion. Requiring all three is what keeps the construct distinct from ordinary tiredness and from depression, and it is why the Maslach inventory scores the three separately.
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