Cross-Cultural Validation and Differential Functioning of the MBI-GS in Teachers from Three Latin-American Countries

In Latin-America, burnout syndrome (Bs) is a growing issue. However, very little has been explored of its cultural differences in its psychological mechanisms and its measurement efficiency. In particular, the MBI-GS questionnaire has been widely recognized as a satisfactory measure of BS in different sectors and occupational groups, and its validity has been proved in multiple languages and countries, but in Latin-America, research remains scarce. The objective of this study was to carry out a Latin-American translation and cultural adaptation of the MBI-GS, to analyze its internal structure, its reliability, and its measurement invariance (DIF and MGFCA) among genders and samples of teachers from three different Latin-American countries: Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. The results show that the proposed Latin version of the MBI-GS has satisfactory psychometric properties, including an equivalent item and scale functioning among genders and countries' sample participants. Semantic issues and future perspectives are discussed.