Self‐efficacy, school resources, job stressors and burnout among Spanish primary and secondary school teachers: a structural equation approach
- 9 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Educational Psychology
- Vol. 29 (1), 45-68
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410802459234
Abstract
This study examines the relationship between school resources, teacher selfefficacy, potential multi-level stressors and teacher burnout using structural equation modelling. The causal structure for primary and secondary school teachers was also examined. The sample was composed of 724 primary and secondary Spanish school teachers. The changes occurring in the Spanish teacher role in the last decade were taken into account to select job stressors. The results obtained revealed that external (school support resources) and internal (management classroom self-efficacy and instructional self-efficacy) coping resources have a negative and significant effect on job stressors. In turn, job stressors have a positive and significant effect on teachers’ burnout considering it as both a unidimensional and multidimensional construct. Furthermore, the hypothesised structure of burnout dimensions revealed that emotional exhaustion plays a key role in explaining Spanish school teachers’ burnout. Practical implications of these findings are discusseKeywords
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