Principal burnout is negatively related to job satisfaction and self-efficacy and co-occurs with stress¶

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q3 i? Job satisfaction and self-efficacy were consistently negatively related to principal burnout in quantitative analyses, and burnout tended to co-occur with stress. → Rogers 2025

Evidence¶

Rogers 2025¶

Rogers, L. K., Nguyen, T. D., Timmer, M., & Samson, J. (2025). Principal Burnout: A Systematic Review. Working paper. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED666666

q3 · i? · review · r2

Systematic review of correlates across 99 studies. The most assessed constructs included stress, job satisfaction, self-efficacy, and wellbeing. "Burnout was also typically negatively related to value-positive constructs such as wellbeing, job satisfaction, and self-efficacy." Bivariate correlations were the most common method.

"Job satisfaction and self-efficacy were always negatively related to burnout in quantitative analyses (Federici & Skaalvik, 2002, Sarros, 2002; Horwood et al., 2022, Gursel et al., 2002, Olsend, 1985)."

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