Teachers, one of the basic vital human resources of the education system, play an important role in comprehensive restructuring actions carried out in education, as well as in developing schools, increasing the quality of education, and forming an effective school culture and climate. Therefore, determining the variables that affect the…

During the 2020-2021 school year, the COVID-19 pandemic pushed many school districts to implement alternative teaching approaches including, socially distanced classrooms with hybrid teaching schedules or all virtual instruction. This study aimed to gain insight into the impact of COVID-19 on hybrid and virtual elementary teacher stress.…

Purpose: Changes in biophysiological markers related to perceived burnout and self-comfort were tested in this study. Method: Forty-two student-athletes from middle and high school grades were evaluated for burnout, salivary cortisol levels, measures of arousal-related physiological markers (i.e., blood volume pulse; BVP), galvanic skin response…

Student teachers recurrently and spontaneously talk about burnout when considering challenges of teaching. The following paper aims to address burnout from the perspectives of student teachers, as well as how they prepare to deal with the threat of burnout. There is a lack of research from a student teacher's perspective concerning burnout. Focus…

The number of teachers leaving the profession continues to increase at a worrying rate. Factors contributing to this include burnout, heightened levels of stress, anxiety and depression. The current study tested whether the use of mindful colouring would translate to improvements in wellbeing. Teachers from the UK (n = 35) were randomly assigned…

As teachers returned to the classroom for the 2020-2021 school year, they faced new and challenging environments, instructional approaches, and roles as educators. The current study is one of the first empirical studies that identified factors contributing to teacher burnout due to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) and instruction during fall 2020.…

The aim of the study was to design a framework for university administrations to provide guideline for the effective management of the issues of occupational stress and burnout among university teachers in Pakistan. A total of 320 university teachers participated in the study. Of the respondents, 144 (45%) were female, and 176 (55%) were male. The…

This study aimed to investigate the burnout levels of teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) at primary schools in Turkey, and how they cope with burnout. It was also aimed to examine if there was a relationship between the teachers' burnout levels and their adopted coping strategies. The participants of the study comprised 108 EFL…

This study aims to develop a scale that will determine the factors causing professional obsolescence in the field of education. In this context, the Professional Obsolescence Scale (POS) has been developed to determine the professional and organizational obsolescence of primary, secondary and high school administrators. In this scale development…

Over the last decades, extensive research has given considerable attention to teachers' burnout. Owing to its negative personal, organizational, and social impacts (e.g., mental ill health, decreased work performance, turnover), intervention and prevention efforts have consequently been employed to minimize the effects of this phenomenon/syndrome.…

The purpose of this narrative inquiry was to explore the story of a secondary ensemble teacher who experienced burnout and chose to remain in the profession. Eleanor and I met for three semistructured interviews and two observations. I used Clandinin and Connelly's three-dimensional inquiry space as a framework for this study. Narrative analysis…

The present study investigated the correlation between student involvement in extracurricular activities and self esteem. Societal focus on self esteem has increased significantly as mental health has been prioritized, and due to this necessity of self esteem within young people, the focus of this paper is on the self esteem of involved high…

Teaching has been characterised as a stressful profession that is prone to burnout. Less is known about the specific ways in which teachers experience and navigate stressors associated with their work. This study aimed to qualitatively understand how teachers who perceive high and low levels of burnout characterise their lived experiences in…

Although in recent years, researchers have shown increasing interest in achievement-related emotions, academic boredom included, still the vast majority of the studies that have been carried out on the issue, so far, employed solely or primarily quantitative methods, were largely confined to the field of psychology and were conducted in a limited…

This study evaluates the influence of resilience as a potential coping strategy to help reduce student departure from the accounting major. We collected data from 443 accounting majors at four geographically disbursed U.S. universities using a battery of psychometric instruments. With these data, we analyzed the relations between role stressors,…