Burnout amongst urban secondary school teachers in Namibia

Relationship between Occupational Stress and Burnout among School Teachers

The study investigated the relationship between teacher occupational stress and burnout. The sample size of 400 private school teachers of Himachal Pradesh was taken in to consideration which included both primary and secondary school teachers. The test of Teacher stress Survey by Malik, 1993 and Maslach Burnout inventory by Maslach & Jackson, 1981 was used to assess the teacher stress and burn...

Pathways to health: The use of Product-term Regression Analyses to Examine Third Variable Influences using Examples of Burnout Research

This paper attempts to differentiate between the various roles that a third variable can play in the adverse condition-wellbeing relationship (for example, stressdepression relationship). In addition, the appropriate statistical procedures for testing these roles are demonstrated using burnout research data. In this particular research project 207 secondary school teachers completed a range of ...

Mental health and burnout in primary and secondary school teachers in the remote mountain areas of Guangdong Province in the People’s Republic of China

BACKGROUND A growing number of studies have shown that education is a work context in which professionals (teachers) seem likely to suffer from burnout that may be associated with low levels of mental health. Although there is a demonstrated need to improve the mental health and burnout levels among teachers, little is known about their mental health status, particularly with respect to graduat...

An Integrative Approach to Burnout in Secondary School Teachers: Examining the Role of Student Disruptive Behaviour and Disciplinary Issues

The aim of this paper is to examine from an integrative approach to what extent occupational stressors when in combination with other variables that have accredited their explicative value in accounting for teacher distress in other domains (personal, psychosocial and outside the occupational sphere) contribute to predicting and/or explaining the different components of burnout. The sample cons...

Self-efficacy, school resources, job stressors and burnout among Spanish primary and secondary school teachers: a structural equation approach