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The Effects of Elementary School Teachers' Functional Perfectionist Tendency on Their Burnout with Mediating Effects of Teacher Efficacy

  • The Korean Journal of School Psychology
  • Abbr : KJSP
  • 2011, 8(1), pp.1-15
  • DOI : 10.16983/kjsp.2011.8.1.1
  • Publisher : The Korean Journal of School Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science > School / Educational Psychology

김미라 1 LEE Jeeyon 2 이인숙 3

1경원초등학교
2인천대학교
3항공대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to investigate relations among elementary school teachers' functional perfectionist tendency, teacher efficacy, and burnout, test the effects on teacher burnout with the mediating elements of relations among the variables and teacher efficacy, and search for solutions for teacher burnout. For those purposes, first, the relations between elementary school teachers' functional perfectionist tendency and burnout were examined; secondly, the relations between teacher efficacy and burnout were investigated; and finally, it was tested if teacher efficacy mediated the relations between their functional perfectionist tendency and burnout. A total of 300 teachers working for elementary schools in Incheon Metropolitan City were asked to fill out a questionnaire. The research findings were as follows: First, there was a low level of significant negative correlation between the elementary school teachers' functional perfectionism and burnout. Their functional perfectionism was also in significant negative correlations with dehumanization and loss of personal achievement. Secondly, teacher efficacy had explanatory power for teacher burnout. Specifically, self-regulating efficacy and confidence of its subvariables provided significant explanations for teacher burnout. Lastly, it was tested if teacher efficacy mediated the relations between functional perfectionism and teacher burnout. As a result, functional perfectionism, a prediction variable, provided significant explanations for teacher burnout, a dependent variable, and teacher efficacy, a mediating variable. When both functional perfectionism and teacher efficacy were entered simultaneously, teacher efficacy fully mediated the relations between functional perfectionism and teacher burnout. The study found that there were negative correlations between the teachers' functional perfectionist tendency and burnout and proved that teacher efficacy fully mediated the relations between the two variables. The implication and limitations of the study were discussed along with some suggestions for future researches and psychotherapy practice.

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