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Burnout Self-Test
Checking Yourself for Burnout

Burnout occurs when passionate, committed people become deeply disillusioned with a job
or career from which they have previously derived much of their identity and meaning. It
comes as the things that inspire passion and enthusiasm are stripped away, and tedious or
unpleasant things crowd in.

This tool can help you check yourself for burnout. It helps you look at the way you feel
about your job and your experiences at work, so that you can get a feel for whether you are
at risk of burnout.

Checking Yourself for Burnout

Instructions
For each question, click the radio button in the column that most applies. Then click the
'Calculate My Total' button to add up your score and check your result using the scoring
table underneath.

Not at Very
15 Statements to Answer Rarely Sometimes Often
All Often

I feel run down and drained of physical

1
or emotional energy.

I have negative thoughts about my job.

2
I am harder and less sympathetic with
3
people than perhaps they deserve.

I am easily irritated by small problems,

4
or by my co-workers and team.

I feel misunderstood or unappreciated by

5
my co-workers.

I feel that I have no one to talk to.

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Not at Very
15 Statements to Answer Rarely Sometimes Often
All Often

I feel that I am achieving less than I

7
should.

I feel under an unpleasant level of

8
pressure to succeed.

I feel that I am not getting what I want

9
out of my job.

I feel that I am in the wrong organization

10
or the wrong profession.

I am frustrated with parts of my job.

11
I feel that organizational politics or
12
bureaucracy frustrate my ability to do a
good job.

I feel that there is more work to do than I

13
practically have the ability to do.

I feel that I do not have time to do many

14
of the things that are important to doing
a good quality job.

I find that I do not have time to plan as

15
much as I would like to.

Calculate My Total Total = 0

Score Interpretation

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ScoreComment

15-18 No sign of burnout here.

19-32 Little sign of burnout here, unless some factors are particularly severe.

33-49 Be careful – you may be at risk of burnout, particularly if several scores are high.

50-59 You are at severe risk of burnout – do something about this urgently.

60-75 You are at very severe risk of burnout – do something about this urgently

See our article on Avoiding Burnout if you think you might be at risk of it. See our
article on Recovering From Burnout if you think it might already have occurred.

Note:
This tool uses an informal approach to assessing burnout. While it may be intuitively
useful, it has not been validated through controlled scientific tests and must therefore not
be used as a diagnostic technique. Please, therefore, interpret the results with common
sense. Also, make allowances for any recent events that may have a disproportionate
influence on your mood at the time you take the test!

If you prefer rigorously validated tests, then the Maslach Burnout Inventory may be useful.
This was developed by Christina Maslach, one of the leading researchers in the field of
burnout. Copies can be purchased at this site.

Warning:
Stress can cause severe health problems and, in extreme cases, death. While these stress
management techniques have been shown to have a positive effect on reducing stress, they
are for guidance only, and readers should take the advice of suitably qualified health
professionals if they have any concerns over stress-related illnesses or if stress is causing
significant or persistent unhappiness. Health professionals should also be consulted before
any major change in diet or levels of exercise.

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abkm 2020-10-20 13:16:47

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It is very insightful and resourceful.

konysheva 2020-10-02 12:33:22

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Questions are too straightforward. If I don't like my job I know it. But if I do like my job but
burning out without noticing that becomes an issue. Something like when do you wake
up?How much time you spend on the morning routine before starting WFH?

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