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Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) Test

With 22 questions taking about 20 minutes, the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) Test helps you examine work-related emotional strain, distancing from others, and feelings of effectiveness. Your result offers a structured profile of these areas, supporting reflection on how your current work experience affects energy, relationships, and confidence.

Questions: 2220 minutes

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Scale Explorer

How the Scales are Structured

Emotional ExhaustionEE

This scale measures depletion of emotional, physical, and overall energy resources associated with sustained stress.

example score20/54

20/54Moderateexample score

0 – 18Low

19 – 36Moderate

37 – 54High

A score of 20 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting a noticeable but not severe level of psychoemotional exhaustion.

DepersonalizationD

Measures emotional distancing and detached, impersonal attitudes toward other people as a component of burnout.

example score12/30

12/30Moderateexample score

0 – 10Low

11 – 20Moderate

21 – 30High

A score of 12 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting a noticeable tendency toward emotional detachment in social interactions compared with lower scores.

Personal AccomplishmentPA

This scale measures a reduced sense of competence and perceived value in one’s work or activities.

example score22/48

22/48Moderate reductionexample score

0 – 15Low reduction

16 – 31Moderate reduction

32 – 48High reduction

A score of 22 falls in the Moderate reduction range, suggesting a noticeable but not severe decrease in perceived personal effectiveness and accomplishment.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Overworked helping professionals

41%OF USERS

Healthcare, education, and social service workers take it to check for exhaustion, emotional distancing, and a drop in feeling effective.

Stressed corporate employees

34%OF USERS

People in demanding office roles use it to see whether chronic workload and pressure are turning into burnout symptoms.

Students and early-career workers

25%OF USERS

Those juggling study, new responsibilities, and long hours take it to understand whether fatigue and low motivation reflect burnout.

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

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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

Psychoemotional ExhaustionPE

You?

Average34.3

Typical rangeTypical27.2 – 41.4

Possible0 – 54

DepersonalizationD

You?

Average13.5

Typical rangeTypical8.1 – 18.8

Possible0 – 30

Reduction of Personal AchievementsRoPA

You?

Average19.7

Typical rangeTypical12.8 – 26.7

Possible0 – 48

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

- Never
- Very rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Very often
- Every day
- Never
- Very rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Very often
- Every day
- Never
- Very 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 feel persistently depleted, detached, or less effective at work can use the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) Test to organize those experiences into a three-part profile. It is intended for people reflecting on demanding work involving colleagues, students, trainees, subordinates, or other recipients. The work burnout test organizes work-related burnout experiences across three dimensions, showing how the areas are distributed in the result and giving self-reflection a clearer structure.

What This Assessment Explores

Burnout here is not treated as tiredness alone. The questions touch exhaustion, recovery needs, emotional distance, empathy, meaningfulness, conflict handling, and perceived effectiveness in work with other people. As a burnout inventory, it organizes the result into three dimensions:

Emotional Exhaustion (0-54) measures depletion of emotional, physical, and energetic resources; bands: Low 0-18, Moderate 19-36, High 37-54.
Depersonalization (0-30) measures depersonalization, a specific form of social maladjustment and emotional distancing from others; bands: Low 0-10, Moderate 11-20, High 21-30.
Personal Accomplishment (0-48) measures reduced feelings of competence and achievement at work; bands: Low reduction 0-15, Moderate reduction 16-31, High reduction 32-48.

Together, the scales show a pattern rather than one global score, so one area may stand out while others remain lower.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Responses use frequency options, usually from Never through Every day; some statements use anchors such as a few times a year or less, once a month, or once a week. The items address strain and functioning, including emotional depletion, detachment, workload, relationships, and accomplishment.

The frequency responses are summarized into the displayed scale results, which are read against the relevant range and band. This dimensional scoring describes the intensity of separate tendencies rather than producing one pass/fail judgment.

This online questionnaire is conceptually consistent with the published Maslach Burnout Inventory (Maslach & Jackson, 1981), rather than being the published instrument itself. The Maslach, Jackson, and Leiter (1996) manual provides the established three-subscale framework. Presented as an occupational burnout assessment, it uses that framework online; the displayed bands are the categories used to interpret this result.

Current workload, role expectations, mood, self-awareness, and willingness to disclose can influence self-report, so the result should be interpreted in context and not treated as a diagnosis.

Author: Christina Maslach, Susan E. Jackson

Literature:

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.). Consulting Psychologists Press.

Updated: 2025-06-11