REPORT C: Cultures, Norms, and the Phase Model, III: Burnout in Chinese Municipal Government

As part of a global effort to replicate methods and results associated with the phase model of burnout, respondents from 10 departments of Beijing's municipal governments (N = 259) were surveyed with a one-shot questionnaire. Basically, the replication supports the usefulness of an operational definition of the phases developed in North American settings. In sum, 5 marker variables covaried in expected ways for the progressive phases. Although the pattern met accepted covariations for statistical significance and would be considered robust by most standards, the pattern is not as marked as in most other replications. This may reflect cross-national or cross-cultural features as intervening variables, in part; but gender effects also may be operating.