Table 1.
Correlations between burnout (Maslach Burnout Inventory [MBI-HSSMP] and its subscales for emotional exhaustion [EE], depersonalization [DP] and personal achievement [PA]; Burnout Measure [BM]) and depression (Beck Depression Inventory [BDI-II] and its subscales for anhedonia [Anhed] and other questions not related to anhedonia [BDI-17]), stress related symptoms (Traumatic Stress Checklist [TSC-40] and its subscales for dissociative symptoms [Dis], anxiety [Anx], depression [Dep], sexual abuse trauma index [SATI], sleep disturbances [Sleep] and sexual problems [Sex]), and alexithymia (Toronto Alexithymia Scale [TAS-20] and its subscales for difficulty of identifying feelings [Dif], difficulty of describing feelings [DDF] and externally oriented thinking [EOT]).
| Measure | MBI | MBI | MBI | BDI-II | TSC | TSC | TSC | TSC | TSC | TSC | TAS-20 | TAS-20 | TAS-20 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE | DP | PA | BDI-II | BDI-17 | Anhed | TSC-40 | Dis | Anx | Dep | SATI | Sleep | Sex | TAS-20 | Dif | DDF | EOT | |
| BM | 0.67 | 0.38 | –0.48 | 0.63 | 0.59 | 0.56 | 0.63 | 0.46 | 0.59 | 0.60 | 0.44 | 0.47 | 0.36 | 0.41 | 0.38 | 0.32 | 0.26 |
| MBI - EE | 1 | 0.55 | –0.35 | 0.56 | 0.51 | 0.51 | 0.52 | 0.43 | 0.50 | 0.47 | 0.41 | 0.38 | 0.34 | 0.37 | 0.27 | 0.24 | 0.34 |
| MBI - DP | 1 | –0.27 | 0.33 | 0.32 | 0.26 | 0.31 | 0.25 | 0.29 | 0.29 | 0.22 | NS | 0.22 | 0.33 | 0.27 | 0.30 | 0.22 | |
| MBI - PA | 1 | –0.36 | –0.35 | –0.33 | –0.31 | –0.28 | –0.27 | –0.24 | –0.27 | –0.22 | NS | –0.41 | –0.27 | –0.42 | –0.29 | ||
| BDI-II | 1 | 0.98 | 0.75 | 0.78 | 0.56 | 0.61 | 0.76 | 0.68 | 0.67 | 0.52 | 0.49 | 0.43 | 0.45 | 0.30 | |||
| BDI-17 | 1 | 0.63 | 0.73 | 0.54 | 0.57 | 0.69 | 0.64 | 0.64 | 0.46 | 0.47 | 0.41 | 0.46 | 0.27 | ||||
| BDI-II Anhed | 1 | 0.69 | 0.44 | 0.55 | 0.71 | 0.59 | 0.55 | 0.57 | 0.37 | 0.38 | 0.28 | 0.24 | |||||
| TSC-40 | 1 | 0.74 | 0.83 | 0.91 | 0.82 | 0.83 | 0.71 | 0.57 | 0.56 | 0.48 | 0.36 | ||||||
| TSC-40 Dis | 1 | 0.59 | 0.59 | 0.78 | 0.53 | 0.44 | 0.60 | 0.49 | 0.49 | 0.47 | |||||||
| TSC-40 Anx | 1 | 0.70 | 0.60 | 0.62 | 0.50 | 0.46 | 0.44 | 0.37 | 0.29 | ||||||||
| TSC-40 Dep | 1 | 0.74 | 0.84 | 0.66 | 0.44 | 0.46 | 0.34 | 0.28 | |||||||||
| TSC-40 SATI | 1 | 0.63 | 0.70 | 0.54 | 0.52 | 0.43 | 0.37 | ||||||||||
| TSC-40 Sleep | 1 | 0.48 | 0.32 | 0.35 | 0.25 | NS | |||||||||||
| TSC-40 Sex | 1 | 0.41 | 0.50 | 0.32 | NS | ||||||||||||
| TAS-20 | 1 | 0.74 | 0.79 | 0.79 | |||||||||||||
| TAS-20 DIF | 1 | 0.55 | 0.32 | ||||||||||||||
| TAS-20 DDF | 1 | 0.42 | |||||||||||||||
| TAS-20 EOT | 1 |
Spearman’s rho (r)values ≥ 0.22 are statistically significant at P<0.05, and rvalues ≥ 0.24 are statistically significant at P<0.01 (Spearman’s correlation coefficient).
NS, no statistically significant correlation.