The Relationship between Teachers’ Job Burnout and Perfectionism

Abstract: Today, our society and school are looking for the most effective means of implementing the ever-increasing changes in the education system. Special attention is paid to teacher's profession and personality and specific requirements for the teacher (Nasvytienė & Balčaitytė, 2009; Stočkus, 2014; Kim, Youngs, & Frenk, 2017). This causes permanent emotional tension that can lead to teachers’ burnout at work. The article deals with the problem of job burnout and its relationship with perfectionism as a personality trait. The presence of perfectionism as a teacher’s personality trait and job burnout is acknowledged on a theoretical level (Flett, Hewitt, & Hallett, 1995; Friedman, 2000), however, the number of empirical studies on the issue is not sufficient. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between teachers’ burnout at work and perfectionism. The study involved 136 informants - teachers from general education schools and special education institutions. The Maslac

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Esperanto
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Ugdymo psichologija (Educational Psychology) ; 28 (2017) ; 38-55

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Psychologie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2017
• Creator: Navaitienė, Julita ; Danilovienė, Viktorija

Further information

• DOI: 10.15823/up.2017.03
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019072015432499342391
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 25.03.2025, 1:46 PM CET