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Causes of Burnout

Interpersonal Relationship

Networking
  • Interaction with parents, students and professional community gave emotional exhaustion to the teachers. Pyhalto, Pietarinen & Salmela-Aro, (2011)

  • Special education teachers get burnout when they did not receive proper support from their general teachers to include their children in general classroom. Garwood, Werts, Varghese & Goosey, (2018)

  • Unsupportive relationship with administration was found to be a reason for burnout. Carlson,  & Thompson, (1995)

  • Lack of administrative support was another reason for burnout. Jacobson, (2016).

  • Teachers were faced difficulty in communicating with their staff members. Jacobson, (2016)

Work Pressure

Student Writing
  • Droogenbroeck, Spruyt, & Vanroelen, (2014) found that burnout was affected by the workload related to teaching and the non-teaching work of teachers.

  • The transition from higher education to the job comes with a number of positive and negative experiences. Droogenbroeck, Spruyt, & Vanroelen, (2014)

  • Beginner teachers were more prone to burnout because of the expectations they had from the job. Stadnyk, Hultell, & Gustavsson, (2011)  

  • Workload in the form of job demands was found to be a source of burnout. Hakanen, Bakker, & Schaufeli, (2006).

Classroom Management

In the Classroom
  • Teachers with more classroom efficacy were less burnout as compared to the teachers with one size fit all approach towards classroom management. Garwood, Werts, Varghese &  Goosey (2018)

  • Classroom management and burnout (lowered personal accomplishment) were found to have a strong relationship. Aloe, Amo &  Shanahan (2013)

  • Classroom management affects the classroom interaction which lead to burnout among teachers. Jacobson, (2016) 

  • Teachers having problem in communication often miss to communicate with parents about misbehaviour of student which affect their classroom management. Jacobson, (2016)

Classroom Environment

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  • Special education teachers working in specialized classroom were more affected by burnout as compared to the others working in regular classroom. Boujut, Dean, Grouselle & Cappe, (2016)

  • In specialized classroom the emotional support was missing for the special education teachers.Stadnyk, Hultell, & Gustavsson (2011)

  • Classroom environment was found to be directly related to burnout among teachers. Ali, & Baghery, (2018)

  • Teachers were focusing only on the students who were interested rather than the whole class. Jacobson, (2016)

Individual Characteristics

Students and Teacher in Classroom
  • Imbalance in private and professional life often leads to burnout in new teachers. Stadnyk, Hultell, &  Gustavsson (2011)

  • Female college teachers were more self-efficient and less burnout as compared to male college teachers. Naz, Atta, &  Malik (2017)

  • Female teachers had more burnout in comparison to male teachers. Sünbül, (2003) 

  • Conflict in roles was found to be another contributing factor to burnout in teachers. Garwood, Werts, Varghese & Goosey, (2018)

  • Physical exhaustion such as changing diaper or lifting was found to be responsible for emotional exhaustion among teachers. Garwood, Werts, Varghese & Goosey, (2018)

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