Does Accountability Aggravate the Risk of Teacher Burnout? Evidence from the Chinese Education System
External and internal accountabilities and emotional labor are possible factors triggering teacher burnout, but the relationships between the constructs have not been fully addressed. Thus, this study aimed to construct and test a chain mediation model to demonstrate the relationships between extern...
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description | External and internal accountabilities and emotional labor are possible factors triggering teacher burnout, but the relationships between the constructs have not been fully addressed. Thus, this study aimed to construct and test a chain mediation model to demonstrate the relationships between external accountability and burnout, mediated by internal accountability and emotional labor sequentially. By surveying 814 teachers (years of teaching: M = 13.42, SD = 10.97) from 10 provinces in China, it shows: (1) external and internal accountabilities are both negatively related to burnout; (2) internal accountability, deep acting, and expression of naturally felt emotions mediate the relationship between external accountability and burnout; (3) internal accountability and surface acting sequentially play a chain mediating role between external accountability and burnout; and (4) internal accountability and expression of naturally felt emotions sequentially play a chain mediating role between external accountability and teacher burnout. |
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spelling | doaj.art-c322abb057ee438892e145c3dd214b5d2023-11-19T09:35:33ZengMDPI AGBehavioral Sciences2076-328X2023-09-0113977210.3390/bs13090772Does Accountability Aggravate the Risk of Teacher Burnout? Evidence from the Chinese Education SystemGuanyu Li0Kwok Kuen Tsang1College of Educational Administration, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, ChinaDepartment of Education Policy and Leadership, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaExternal and internal accountabilities and emotional labor are possible factors triggering teacher burnout, but the relationships between the constructs have not been fully addressed. Thus, this study aimed to construct and test a chain mediation model to demonstrate the relationships between external accountability and burnout, mediated by internal accountability and emotional labor sequentially. By surveying 814 teachers (years of teaching: M = 13.42, SD = 10.97) from 10 provinces in China, it shows: (1) external and internal accountabilities are both negatively related to burnout; (2) internal accountability, deep acting, and expression of naturally felt emotions mediate the relationship between external accountability and burnout; (3) internal accountability and surface acting sequentially play a chain mediating role between external accountability and burnout; and (4) internal accountability and expression of naturally felt emotions sequentially play a chain mediating role between external accountability and teacher burnout.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/13/9/772external accountabilityinternal accountabilityemotional laborburnoutteacher |
spellingShingle | Guanyu Li Kwok Kuen Tsang Does Accountability Aggravate the Risk of Teacher Burnout? Evidence from the Chinese Education System Behavioral Sciences external accountability internal accountability emotional labor burnout teacher |
title | Does Accountability Aggravate the Risk of Teacher Burnout? Evidence from the Chinese Education System |
title_full | Does Accountability Aggravate the Risk of Teacher Burnout? Evidence from the Chinese Education System |
title_fullStr | Does Accountability Aggravate the Risk of Teacher Burnout? Evidence from the Chinese Education System |
title_full_unstemmed | Does Accountability Aggravate the Risk of Teacher Burnout? Evidence from the Chinese Education System |
title_short | Does Accountability Aggravate the Risk of Teacher Burnout? Evidence from the Chinese Education System |
title_sort | does accountability aggravate the risk of teacher burnout evidence from the chinese education system |
topic | external accountability internal accountability emotional labor burnout teacher |
url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/13/9/772 |
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