Shirom-Melamed Burnout Measure (SMBM)

How Do You Feel at Work?
1.    I feel tired
2.    I have no energy for going to work in the morning
3.    I feel physically drained
4.    I feel fed up
5.    I feel like my “batteries” are “dead”
6.    I feel burned out
7.    My thinking process is slow
8.    I have difficulty concentrating
9.    I feel I’m not thinking clearly
10.10. I feel I’m not focused in   my thinking
11.I have difficulty thinking about complex things
12.I feel I am unable to be sensitive to the needs of coworkers and customers 
13.I feel I am not capable of investing emotionally in coworkers and customers
14.I feel I am not capable of being sympathetic to co-workers and customers
physical fatigue; emotional exhaustion; and cognitive weariness
 
1= Never or almost never‚ 2= Very infrequently‚ 3= Quite infrequently‚ 4= Sometimes Quite‚ 5= frequently Very‚ 6= frequently‚ 7=Always or almost always
physical fatigue (1-5); emotional exhaustion (6-8); and cognitive weariness (9-12)
 
This instrument can be found at: http://www.shirom.org/arie/index.html#  
 

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