Teachers' Attributions for Stress and Their Relationships with Burnout.

By John McCormick, Kerry Barnett. 2011

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Purpose – It may be argued that some shared psychological mechanisms (attribution) and structures (schemas) are likely to play a role in how individuals perceive stress. This paper seeks to propose and test some hypothesised relationships between stress attribution domains and burnout dimensions.Design/methodology/approach – The participants were 416 classroom teachers in 38 randomly selected high schools in New South Wales, Australia. Two established instruments, the Maslach Burnout Inventory, and the Teachers' Attribution of Responsibility for Stress Scale were employed in a postal survey. Data were analysed using confirmatory factor analysis and multilevel modelling.Findings – Most variance was at the individual level, supporting the view that the stress and burnout were overwhelmingly psychological phenomena. Findings suggest the centrality of stress attributed to student misbehaviour in predicting each of the three dimensions of burnout: depersonalisation, emotional exhaustion, and personal accomplis...

Subfields: General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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Teacher emotion regulation strategies in response to classroom misbehavior (2020, background): “…Emotion regulation; teacher emotion; experience sampling method Student misbehaviour, a salient predictor of teacher burnout (Chang, 2009; McCormick & Barnett, 2011), often triggers negative emotions, such as anger or frustration, in teachers (Chang & Davis, 2009; Frenzel, 2014; Taxer &…”
Effects of support on stress and burnout in school principals (2016, background): “With respect to the relationship between stress and burnout, in a schooling context, McCormick and Barnett (2011) investigated the link between burnout and Australian highschool teachers’ perceptions of job stress (n = 416).”
Teacher Burnout: A Review of Sources and Ramifications (2015, background): “26 McCormick and Barnett (2010) [35] High school Australia CFA”
Mindfulness for teachers: A pilot study to assess effects on stress, burnout and teaching efficacy (2013, background): “Teachers' perceptions of stress and their ability to cope with demands are implicated in burnout (McCormick & Barnett, 2011).”
The Role of Teachers’ Self- and Collective-Efficacy Beliefs on Their Job Satisfaction and Experienced Emotions in School (2013, background): “…role of the significant others, such as school administration, students and colleagues in their well being (see Buss & Hughes, 2007; Frenzel et al., 2009; Lambert et al., 2009; McCormick & Barnett, 2011; Parrrott, 2003; Schutz, Hong, Cross, & Osbon, 2006; Summers & Davis, 2006; Yoon, 2002).”
Predicting intraindividual changes in teacher burnout: The role of perceived school environment and motivational factors (2012, background): “More recently, in a sample of 416 Australian high school teachers, McCormick and Barnett (2011) investigated the link between burnout and teachers’ perceptions of job stress in specific domains (personal, classroom, school, and external).”
Burnout syndrome in secondary school teachers: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2018, unknown): “For depersonalisation, most of the studies reported intermediate values, although again, three measured low mean values (McCormick and Barnett 2011; Pedrabissi et al. 1993; Unterbrink et al. 2007) and one recorded high values (Gursel et al.”