Educational Psychology
Abolfazl Nejati mehr; Mohammad saeid Abdekhodaei; Abbas Firoozabadi
Abstract
Introduction
Teaching is a job with a high level of stress, and stress is a normal emotional response to threatening events; But when stress becomes chronic, it becomes traumatic. Finally, the stress of the teaching job leads to experiencing severe anxiety, decreasing job satisfaction, leaving the job, ...
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Introduction
Teaching is a job with a high level of stress, and stress is a normal emotional response to threatening events; But when stress becomes chronic, it becomes traumatic. Finally, the stress of the teaching job leads to experiencing severe anxiety, decreasing job satisfaction, leaving the job, and increasing burnout. Therefore, examining burnout and the factors that can affect its level and severity is of great importance. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between self-compassion and burnout of teachers with more than ten years of experience, considering the mediating role of resilience.
Method
In this research, which was conducted by correlation method and structural equation model, a sample size of 372 teachers (220 men and 152 women( with more than ten years of work experience was selected by a multi-stage random sampling method. For data collection, the Neff self-compassion Scale, The Connor & Davidson Resilience Scale and The Maslach Burnout Inventory were applied. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation method and structural equation modeling in SPSS-26 and AMOS-25 software.
Results
The findings of structural equation modeling showed that all paths are statistically significant. So that the direct effect of self-compassion on burnout (β=-0.27, p < 0.003) and its indirect effect through resilience (p < 0.001, β=-0.28) are statistically significant. Resilience also has a significant direct effect on burnout (p < 0.002, β = -0.43). Also, 42% of the variance of burnout can be explained based on self-compassion and resilience.
Conclusion
The findings showed that resilience plays a mediating role in the relationship between on self-compassion and burnout. There is a significant positive relationship between self-kindness, a sense of Common humanity and mindfulness with burnout, and there is a significant negative relationship between self-judgment, isolation, and over-identification with burnout. In explaining these findings, it should be stated that self-compassion originates from positive psychology, which believes that the level of psychological well-being should be improved through accepting abilities and improving them, so people who have high self-compassion, By taking serious care and attention to themselves and using compassionate guides, they help themselves to provide the means for their growth and development, which results in reducing negative mood and ultimately reducing the experience of burnout. With these interpretations, Self-compassion can be an important variable related to burnout, because it empowers a person to take control of the situation when faced with life's problems and hardships by influencing resilience.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesized causal model of antecedents and consequences of teachers’ resiliency in different education levels. The statistical population consisted of all teachers working in primary, middle and secondary education in the city of Bushehr, of which 400 ...
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The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesized causal model of antecedents and consequences of teachers’ resiliency in different education levels. The statistical population consisted of all teachers working in primary, middle and secondary education in the city of Bushehr, of which 400 teachers were selected by multistage cluster sampling. Connor-Davidson Resilience Inventory (2003), Work Preference Scale Amabile et al ,Emotion Regulation Questionnaire John and Gross (2003), Life Orientation Test Scheier and Carver (1994), General Self-Efficacy Scale Sherer and Maddox (1982), Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support Zimet et al (1988), The Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations Endler and Parker (1990), job performance questionnaire Patterson (1970), Family Questionnaire Asptain and Baldwin (1983) , Quality of Life Questionnaire Weir and Sherbon (1992) and King Spiritual Intelligence Questionnaire (2008) were used to collect data. Structural Equation Statistical method also used to test the research hypotheses. The results of direct relations antecedent resiliency variables in a given model showed that paths between coping strategies, internal-external motivation, emotional regulation, family performance and spiritual intelligence and resiliency is significant, but direct relationship between social support and optimism and resiliency variables were non-significant. Also, direct relationship between resiliency with outcome variables such as quality of life and job performance were significant but there was not significant relationship between resiliency with self-efficacy. Overall, the model results show that the proposed model indices’ fitness is acceptable. In order to better fitness, a modified version was evaluated. The results imply the improvement of fitness of modified model.
