Validation and Reliability of the German Version of the School Burnout Inventory

Abstract. This study investigates the validity and reliability of German version School Burnout Inventory (SBI-G) in 1,570 secondary-school students ( Mage = 14.11, SD 0.78; 51.7 % girls). Results indicate that school burnout consists two correlated but separate dimensions including (1) exhaustion at school, (2) cynicism toward meaning sense inadequacy. The revealed can be measured as a two-factor model, which provided good indices. Further, we verified concurrent validity, finding suffering from general stress also reported overall well exhaustion, cynicism, Students who exhibited inadequacy lower levels behavioral, emotional, cognitive engagement, while exhausted emotional engagement higher engagement.