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Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) Test

This five-minute, 22-question questionnaire, the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) Test, explores emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, the Reduced Personal Accomplishment scale, and a composite indicator of overall burnout severity. Higher reduction scores reflect more negative appraisals of competence and productivity. Your result supports thoughtful self-reflection on current work-related functioning.

Questions: 225 minutes

Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) Test: agreement scale card

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How the Scales are Structured

Burnout Syndrome System IndexBSSI

This scale provides a single 0–1 index summarizing the overall severity of burnout based on a mathematical model of MBI symptoms.

example score0/1

0/1No burnoutexample score

0No burnout

0.01 – 1Maximum severity

A score of 0 indicates no systemic signs of burnout are reflected by this overall index.

Reduced Personal AccomplishmentRPA

Assesses the extent to which a person experiences a reduced sense of professional accomplishment and satisfaction with their competence and productivity.

example score45/48

45/48High reductionexample score

0 – 30Low reduction

31 – 36Moderate reduction

37 – 48High reduction

A score of 45 falls in the High reduction range, indicating a pronounced decrease in perceived professional effectiveness and satisfaction with work results.

DepersonalizationD

Measures the degree of emotional detachment, indifference, and cynical or formalized attitudes toward clients and colleagues as a component of burnout.

example score5/30

5/30Lowexample score

0 – 5Low

6 – 10Moderate

11 – 30High

A score of 5 falls in the Low range, suggesting minimal depersonalization with generally preserved personal involvement and empathy in professional interactions.

Emotional ExhaustionEE

Measures the degree of emotional and mental fatigue from work, including feelings of depleted resources and reduced positive engagement with others.

example score18/54

18/54Moderateexample score

0 – 15Low

16 – 24Moderate

25 – 54High

A score of 18 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting a noticeable but not severe level of emotional fatigue and reduced emotional resources.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Healthcare and helping professionals

41%OF USERS

Doctors, nurses, psychologists, and social workers take it to spot emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and declining sense of impact from constant high-stakes contact with people.

Overloaded office employees

34%OF USERS

Managers and specialists in corporate roles use it when chronic stress, irritability, and feeling “numb” toward work start affecting performance and motivation.

Students and trainees

25%OF USERS

Medical residents, graduate students, and interns take it to monitor burnout during intense study, exams, and long practical rotations.

BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.

Benchmarking

See How You Compare

Once you complete the test, your results are compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.

Shaded area — where most people score

Dot — the average

You — your score lands on each curve after the test— your score, after the test

Systemic index of burnout syndromeSiobs

You?

Average0.3

Typical rangeTypical0.2 – 0.5

Possible0 – 1

Reduction of professional achievementsRopa

You?

Average22.6

Typical rangeTypical16.1 – 29.1

Possible0 – 48

DepersonalizationD

You?

Average12.9

Typical rangeTypical8.5 – 17.3

Possible0 – 30

Emotional exhaustionEe

You?

Average40.4

Typical rangeTypical31.5 – 49.3

Possible0 – 54

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

You are presented with 22 statements about feelings and experiences related to work. Please read each statement carefully and decide whether you feel this way at work. If you have never had this feeling, select “never.” If you have had this feeling, indicate how often you have experienced it during the past few months.

- Never
- Very rarely
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Very often
- Every day
- Never
- Very rarely
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Very often
- Every day
- Never
- Very rarely
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Very often
- Every day

These are 3 of the 22 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) Test - Description and methodology of the test

burnout

People who want to examine how work is affecting their energy, professional relationships, and sense of effectiveness may find the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) Test useful. This MBI burnout assessment organizes self-reported experiences into a current burnout profile that includes individual dimensions and an overall severity indicator. The result offers a focused starting point for reflecting on current demands and the pattern of experiences reported.

What This Assessment Explores

Burnout is a work-related pattern, not simply tiredness. The questions suit work involving patients, relatives, and colleagues, addressing emotional demands, empathy, conflict, usefulness, and withdrawal. The questionnaire shows how the burnout dimensions relate to exhaustion, interpersonal distance, confidence in one's contribution, and overall severity. These four outputs describe the profile:

Burnout Syndrome System Index (0-1) is a quantitative indicator based on a mathematical model and reflects overall severity: No burnout (0-0) or Maximum severity (0.01-1).
Reduced Personal Accomplishment (0-48) measures satisfaction with personal and professional competence; low scores signal negative appraisal of competence and productivity, reduced motivation, withdrawal, and avoidance: Low reduction (0-30), Moderate reduction (31-36), or High reduction (37-48).
Depersonalization (0-30) reflects detachment, indifference, cynicism, and unhelpful distance: Low (0-5), Moderate (6-10), High (11-30).
Emotional Exhaustion (0-54) reflects depleted energy, fatigue, lost interest, and feeling overwhelmed: Low (0-15), Moderate (16-24), High (25-54).

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Each statement uses a seven-point frequency response, from Never through Every day. The items combine direct experiences of exhaustion or detachment with positively framed experiences of energy, empathy, conflict resolution, effectiveness, and optimism. These seven-point frequency responses produce the displayed scale results; the questionnaire does not state how individual response values are weighted.

The questionnaire is conceptually consistent with the Systemic Index of Burnout Syndrome (Lozinskaya et al., 2007) and the MBI's three-domain structure described in Maslach and Jackson's 1981 measurement study and 1996 manual. It is an online questionnaire rather than the published instrument, and it is not identified as an adaptation or validation of those sources.

The published instrument's norms and psychometric properties do not automatically carry over to this online burnout questionnaire. Interpret results as a profile of current self-reported functioning: current workload, mood, recent events, self-awareness, and impression management can affect answers. Results are best read alongside the circumstances that shaped them, with broader context needed to judge causes, persistence, or clinical significance.

Author: C. Maslach, S. E. Jackson

Literature:

Lozinskaya, E. I., Lutova, N. B., & Vid, V. D. (2007). Systemic Index of Burnout Syndrome (Based on the MBI Test): Methodological Recommendations. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Research Psychoneurological Institute named after V. M. Bekhterev. 19 pp.
Maslach, C., & Jackson, S. E. (1981). The measurement of experienced burnout. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2(2), 99-113. 10.1002/job.4030020205
Maslach, C., Jackson, S. E., & Leiter, M. P. (1996). Maslach Burnout Inventory Manual (3rd ed.). Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press. 52 pp.

Updated: 2025-10-02

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