The relationship between principal transformational leadership and teacher job burnout:The mediating Effect of teachers' teaching motivation

• In Event: Roundtable Session 9
  In Refereed Roundtable Session: Teacher education: Diversity, participation and motivation

Proposal

Occupational burnout occurs frequently among primary and secondary school teachers, often resulting in serious consequences. In many industries, including education, effective leadership behaviors have been shown to reduce subordinate burnout. As an emerging leadership behavior, transformational leadership has attracted much attention because of its important correlation with subordinate performance. In primary and secondary schools, there is limited research on the relationship between principal's transformational leadership and teacher burnout, and the specific impact of transformational leadership on job burnout is not clear. This study aims to explore the relationship between transformational leadership of primary and secondary school principals and teacher burnout, and the role of teachers' teaching motivation in the relationship path. Work resource-demand theory provides a theoretical framework for this research. In this study, 533 primary and secondary school teachers participated in a questionnaire survey. The study found that principals' transformational leadership and internal motivation in teachers' teaching motivation significantly negatively predicted teacher burnout, and teachers' teaching intrinsic motivation played a mediating role between principals' transformative leadership and teachers' burnout. The research results expand new ideas and paths for the mitigation of teachers' job burnout in theory, and provide reference for the targeted mitigation of teachers' job burnout and the improvement of teachers' sustainable development ability in practice.

Author

• Tong Yao