Relationship between mentalizing and teacher burnout: A cross sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Teaching is considered a high-risk profession due to the high impact of occupational risk factors which can endanger educators' mental health and lead to burnout syndrome. This study aimed to examine whether the capacity for mentalizing in teachers explains the degree of their burnout syndrome. The expectation was that a low capacity for mentalizing increases the degree of burnout.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 823 teachers. The Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educators Survey was used to examine the burnout syndrome. The capacity for mentalizing was examined using hypomentalizing and hypermentalizing scales from the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire.

Results

The expectation that a low capacity for mentalizing increases teachers'

SUBMITTER: Safiye T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9838857 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature