Exhausted due to the pandemic: Validation of Coronavirus Stress Measure and COVID-19 Burnout Scale in a Polish sample

Marcin Moroń; Murat Yildirim; Łukasz Jach; Justyna Nowakowska; Karina Atlas

doi:10.1007/s12144-021-02543-4

Exhausted due to the pandemic: Validation of Coronavirus Stress Measure and COVID-19 Burnout Scale in a Polish sample

Curr Psychol. 2021 Nov 26:1-10. doi: 10.1007/s12144-021-02543-4. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Marcin Moroń¹, Murat Yildirim^{2

3}, Łukasz Jach¹, Justyna Nowakowska¹, Karina Atlas¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Psychology, University of Silesia, 40-126, Grazynskiego Street 53, Katowice, Poland.
² Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science and Letters, Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University, Ağrı, Turkey.
³ Department Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.

Abstract

This study validated Polish versions of the Coronavirus Stress Measure (CSM) and the COVID-19 Burnout Scale (COVID-19-BS) to measure stress and burnout associated with COVID-19. Participants were 431 Polish young adults (72.6% female; Mean_age = 26.61 ± 12.63). Confirmatory factor analysis verified a one-factor solution for both the CSM and the COVID-19-BS. Both scales had high internal consistency reliability. Coronavirus stress and COVID-19 burnout were positively related to depression, anxiety, and stress and negatively related to resilience. The coronavirus stress and COVID-19 burnout were correlated with elevated levels of depression, anxiety, and stress over and beyond resilience, age, and gender. Findings suggest that the Polish versions of the CSM and the COVID-19-BS are valid scales to measure stress and burnout related to COVID-19. Findings also demonstrated that the coronavirus stress and COVID-19 burnout experienced during the later stages of the pandemic might be a permanent risk factor for mental health problems.

Keywords: COVID-19 burnout; Coronavirus stress; Mental health problems; Resilience.