Teachers’ Burnout: The Role of Trait Emotional Intelligence and Social Support
The current study investigates the relations among teachers’ trait emotional intelligence, internal and external social support, and their levels of burnout. We hypothesized that both emotional intelligence and teachers’ perceived social support were associated with low level of teachers’ burnout. W...
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| author | Caterina Fiorilli Paula Benevene Simona De Stasio Ilaria Buonomo Luciano Romano Alessandro Pepe Loredana Addimando |
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| description | The current study investigates the relations among teachers’ trait emotional intelligence, internal and external social support, and their levels of burnout. We hypothesized that both emotional intelligence and teachers’ perceived social support were associated with low level of teachers’ burnout. We further expected that internal and external support mediated the relationship between trait emotional intelligence and burnout scores. Participants were 318 in-service Italian teachers. The structural equation modeling analysis supports the idea that teachers’ trait emotional intelligence is strongly and directly associated with their burnout. Furthermore, internal social support (from the teachers’ workplace relationships) was more effective on burnout than support forthcoming from their external context. On the contrary, the mediation hypothesis was partially supported by the empirical data. These findings shed light on the relationship between teachers’ emotional competence and their burnout experience at school. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-07b4e078f0d44c2bae7dd52c9f51c55b2022-12-21T22:40:15ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782019-12-011010.3389/fpsyg.2019.02743479827Teachers’ Burnout: The Role of Trait Emotional Intelligence and Social SupportCaterina Fiorilli0Paula Benevene1Simona De Stasio2Ilaria Buonomo3Luciano Romano4Alessandro Pepe5Loredana Addimando6Department of Human Sciences, LUMSA University, Rome, ItalyDepartment of Human Sciences, LUMSA University, Rome, ItalyDepartment of Human Sciences, LUMSA University, Rome, ItalyDepartment of Human Sciences, LUMSA University, Rome, ItalyDepartment of Human Sciences, LUMSA University, Rome, ItalyDepartment of Human Science “R. Massa”, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, ItalyDepartment of Teaching and Learning, University of Applied Science and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Locarno, SwitzerlandThe current study investigates the relations among teachers’ trait emotional intelligence, internal and external social support, and their levels of burnout. We hypothesized that both emotional intelligence and teachers’ perceived social support were associated with low level of teachers’ burnout. We further expected that internal and external support mediated the relationship between trait emotional intelligence and burnout scores. Participants were 318 in-service Italian teachers. The structural equation modeling analysis supports the idea that teachers’ trait emotional intelligence is strongly and directly associated with their burnout. Furthermore, internal social support (from the teachers’ workplace relationships) was more effective on burnout than support forthcoming from their external context. On the contrary, the mediation hypothesis was partially supported by the empirical data. These findings shed light on the relationship between teachers’ emotional competence and their burnout experience at school.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02743/fullburnouttrait emotional intelligencesocial supportItalian teachersfamily |
| spellingShingle | Caterina Fiorilli Paula Benevene Simona De Stasio Ilaria Buonomo Luciano Romano Alessandro Pepe Loredana Addimando Teachers’ Burnout: The Role of Trait Emotional Intelligence and Social Support Frontiers in Psychology burnout trait emotional intelligence social support Italian teachers family |
| title | Teachers’ Burnout: The Role of Trait Emotional Intelligence and Social Support |
| title_full | Teachers’ Burnout: The Role of Trait Emotional Intelligence and Social Support |
| title_fullStr | Teachers’ Burnout: The Role of Trait Emotional Intelligence and Social Support |
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| title_short | Teachers’ Burnout: The Role of Trait Emotional Intelligence and Social Support |
| title_sort | teachers burnout the role of trait emotional intelligence and social support |
| topic | burnout trait emotional intelligence social support Italian teachers family |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02743/full |
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