Do immediate supervisors underestimate burnout in subordinates? A comparison between burnout self-assessment by nurses and assessment by immediate supervisors
Darja Maslić Seršić
University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of PsychologyZagreb, Croatia
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Article Category: Original article
Published Online: Dec 29, 2024
Page range: 278 - 282
Received: Jul 01, 2024
Accepted: Nov 01, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aiht-2024-75-3883
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Descriptive statistics and differences between self- and supervisor assessments (N=48 pairs)
| Self-assessment | Assessment by immediate supervisor | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Skewness | Kurtosis | Mean | SD | Skewness | Kurtosis | |
| BAT-23 |
2.23 | 0.501 | 0.413 | 0.227 | 2.01 | 0.570 | 0.657 | -0.070 |
| Exhaustion |
2.78 | 0.688 | 0.303 | -0.051 | 2.35 | 0.689 | 0.401 | -0.317 |
| Emotional impairment | 2.07 | 0.550 | 0.100 | -0.655 | 2.07 | 0.748 | 0.801 | 0.473 |
| Cognitive impairment | 2.06 | 0.548 | 0.105 | -0.076 | 1.93 | 0.638 | 0.652 | 0.581 |
| Mental distance | 2.05 | 0.656 | 0.463 | 0.025 | 1.92 | 0.662 | 0.595 | -0.542 |
Number of nurses and supervisors (in brackets) assessing burnout by domains according to statistical norms (11) (N=48 pairs)
| Burnout self-assessment and assessment by immediate supervisor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low | Average | High | Very high | |
| BAT-23 | 7 ( |
25 ( |
15 ( |
1 ( |
| Exhaustion | 3 ( |
15 ( |
26 ( |
4 ( |
| Emotional impairment | 4 ( |
20 ( |
23 ( |
1 ( |
| Cognitive impairment | 18 ( |
21 ( |
8 ( |
1 ( |
| Mental distance | 6 ( |
32 (31) | 8 ( |
2 (0) |