IJME - Exploring burnout and depression of Thai medical students: the psychometric properties of the Maslach Burnout Inventory

Table 5. Correlations between burnout, its subscales and factors

Factors	Burnout			Professional Efficacy			Emotional Exhaustion			Depersonalisation
Factors	correlation	p-value	df	correlation	p-value	df	correlation	p-value	df	correlation	p-value	df
Year^†	-0.055	0.203	3	0.083	0.652	6	0.063	0.131	6	0.029	0.501	6
GPA	-0.119^*	0.002	3	0.234	<0.001	6	-0.053	0.265	6	-0.112^*	0.017	6
Gender^‡	-0.139^*	0.003	1	0.104^*	0.020	2	-0.064	0.153	2	0.059	0.200	2
Depression screening (PHQ9)	0.294^*	<0.001	2	-0.273^*	<0.001	4	0.469^*	<0.001	4	0.411*	<0.001	4

^*Statistically significant with p<0.005, ^†Spearman correlation, ^‡Kendall’s tau-b correlation, df = degree of freedom

Int J Med Educ. 2019; 10:223-229; doi: 10.5116/ijme.5dc6.8228