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A longitudinal examination of the relationship between teacher burnout and depression
Author(s) -
Shin Hyojung,
Noh Hyunkyung,
Jang Yoojin,
Park Yang Min,
Lee Sang Min
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of employment counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2161-1920
pISSN - 0022-0787
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1920.2013.00031.x
Subject(s) - burnout , psychology , latent growth modeling , depression (economics) , autoregressive model , longitudinal study , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , structural equation modeling , econometrics , statistics , mathematics , economics , macroeconomics
This study investigates the longitudinal relationships between burnout and depression among teachers. Middle and high school teachers participated in a 3‐wave survey. The results of the latent growth modeling analysis revealed that there was a significant relationship between the initial status of burnout and the initial status of depression. Results also indicated a significant relationship between the change rate of burnout and the change rate of depression. Moreover, the autoregressive cross‐lagged modeling revealed a causal relationship such that teacher's burnout leads to subsequent depression symptoms, not vice versa.