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Work Burnout and Engagement Profiles Among Teachers
Katariina Salmela-Aro1,2, Lauri Hietajärvi1, Kirsti Lonka1,3
1Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Frontiers in Psychology
|October 23, 2019
Summary
Teachers
Area of Science:
- Educational Psychology
- Occupational Health Psychology
Background:
- Teacher well-being is crucial for educational quality.
- Work engagement and burnout are key indicators of teacher well-being.
- A person-oriented approach offers nuanced insights into these constructs.
Purpose of the Study:
- To identify distinct profiles of teacher work engagement and burnout.
- To examine how these profiles relate to job demands, job resources, and personal resources (resilience).
- To apply the demands-resources model to understand teacher well-being.
Main Methods:
- Convenience sample of 149 subject-matter teachers from Finland.
- Online self-report questionnaires measuring work engagement, burnout, workload, control, and resilience.
- Person-oriented approach to profile identification.
Main Results:
- Two teacher profiles were identified: 'engaged' (30%) and 'engaged-burnout' (70%).
- The 'engaged' profile group reported higher levels of job and personal resources (e.g., control, resilience).
- The 'engaged-burnout' profile group reported higher work demands (e.g., workload).
Conclusions:
- Teacher well-being is characterized by distinct profiles of engagement and burnout.
- Job and personal resources are associated with higher engagement.
- Increased work demands are linked to the engaged-burnout profile, highlighting the need for resource support.
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