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MBI subscale cut-off scores and categories
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Table 2
Frequency percentage distribution among the three subscales according to Maslach’s categorization
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Table 3
MBI subscale mean scores2
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Table 4
Pearson correlations of continuous demographic variables with MBI subscale scores3
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