Our common idea of burnout largely comes from Christina Maslach—the Maslach Burnout Inventory is more or less the standard tool that psychologists use to score

Our common idea of burnout largely comes from Christina Maslach—the Maslach Burnout Inventory is more or less the standard tool that psychologists use to score and diagnose burnout now—and interestingly, it diagnoses burnout as three related but independent subscales: Exhaustion - somewhat self-explanatory Professional Efficacy - your view of your performance Cynicism - a distancing of yourself from your job Though you may come across different names in different writings. It's interesting how the subscales impact each other. I don't know if I fully buy into the framework 100%, but it makes for interesting research nonetheless.