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Teacher Profiles of Psychological Capital and Their Relationship with Burnout

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Ferradás, María del Mar, Freire, Carlos, García-Bértoa, Alba, Núñez, José Carlos, Rodríguez, Susana·2019·Sustainability

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This study adopts a person-centered approach to identify the possible existence of different teacher profiles of psychological capital, according to the way in which its four components combine (efficacy, hope, optimism, and resilience). The study aimed to examine whether the identified profiles differed in their levels of burnout. In total, 1379 non-university teachers participated in the study. A latent profile analysis was performed using MPlus 7.11 software. Seven teaching profiles of psychological capital were identified, differing both quantitatively and qualitatively. The differences between the profiles in burnout were estimated using SPSS 26 software. Teachers with a profile of low psychological capital (i.e., low confidence of successfully completing challenging tasks—efficacy; lack of energy for establishing personal goals and working towards achieving them —hope; little tendency to make positive causal attributions and develop expectations of success—optimism; and low capacity to recover or emerge stronger from adverse situations—resilience) exhibited significantly higher levels of burnout. The lowest levels of burnout were found in the profile of high psychological capital (i.e., higher in efficacy, hope, optimism, and resilience). These results suggest that teachers who can muster the four components of psychological capital are more protected against burnout.

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Authors
Ferradás, M. D. M., Freire, C., García-Bértoa, A., Núñez, J. C., & Rodríguez, S.
Affiliations
  • Universidade da Coruña (ES)
  • Department of Psychology, University of A Coruña, 15071 A Coruña, Spain
  • Universidad de Oviedo (ES)
Corresponding author
Freire, Carlos
Venue
Sustainability
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2019-09-18
Volume
11
Issue
18
Pages
5096
ISSN
2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2974547364
Cited by
80
References
61
Citations by year
2026: 9 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 9
FWCI
8.81
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Sustainability (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • Consultation of the Doctoral Thesis Database (TESEO) (Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
  • RUC (Universidade Da Coruña) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
Government of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. European Regional Development Fund (Research Groups Program FC-GRUPIN-IDI/2018/000199)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Occupational Therapy › Occupational Health and Burnout
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
Keywords
psychological capital, teacher burnout, teacher profile, teacher self-efficacy, hope, optimism, resilience, non-university teachers, latent profile analysis, person-centered approach

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