Journal
SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY
Volume 50, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SOC PERSONALITY RES INC
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.11041
Keywords
teacher burnout; transformational leadership; psychological empowerment; workload; school teachers; work meaningfulness; self-determination; competence
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- Humanities and Social Science Research Scheme of the Ministry of Education of China [20YJC880002]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2019NTSS49]
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This study examined the relationships between teacher burnout, transformational leadership, and psychological empowerment among primary and secondary school teachers in China. The results showed that transformational leadership and psychological empowerment negatively predicted teacher burnout, and the relationship between transformational leadership and teacher burnout was mediated by psychological empowerment, specifically the dimensions of meaning, self-determination, and competence. Thus, transformational leadership can alleviate teacher burnout by enhancing teachers' sense of work meaningfulness, self-determination, and competence.
Since the 1990s, teachers have become more prone to job burnout as education reforms worldwide have intensified their workload. We examined the relationships between teacher burnout, transformational leadership, and psychological empowerment among 339 primary and secondary school teachers in China. Results show that transformational leadership and psychological empowerment negatively predicted teacher burnout, and the transformational leadership-teacher burnout relationship was mediated by psychological empowerment. Of the four dimensions of psychological empowerment, the meaning, self-determination, and competence dimensions significantly mediated the transformational leadership-teacher burnout relationship. Thus, transformational leadership alleviated teacher burnout because it enhanced teachers' sense of work meaningfulness, self-determination, and competence.
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