Dear all,

We conducted a research on college students using Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Form of Schaufeli et. 2002. As you all know this scale consists of three factors, namely exhaustion, cynicism and professional efficacy.

My question is about the internal consistency coefficient of the factor professional efficacy. The Cronbach's Alpha for this factor is .59 and split-half reliability coefficient is .61.

In our research we also measure general self-efficacy of the students.

Therefore, what should we do?

For my idea, the best option is omitting the factor from the analysis since we also measure general self-efficacy.

What do you think?

Thanks in advance.

Meryem