Mediating Role of Teachers Self-Efficacy in the Relationship between Primary Teachers Emotional Intelligence and Job Burnout in Babol City

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship betweenemotional intelligence and self-efficacy with job burnout among primaryschool teachers in Babol (Mazandaran, Iran). This is a descriptive correlationalstudy clearly based on structural equation modeling (SEM). The participants ofthis study were 225 of public primary school teachers in Babol in academicyear 2013-14 that were selected via cluster random sampling method.Participants completed Maslach and Jackson's Job Burnout Inventory (MBI)(1996), Teacher Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (by Tschannen-Moran, Woolfolk,2001) and Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (by Schutte, 1998) andreliability and validity of these questionnaires were obtained. Results ofPearson correlation showed that all emotional intelligence, job burnout andself-efficacy components are mutually correlated with each other (P<0.01).Implementing structural equation modeling (SEM) for casual relationshipbetween emotional intelligence and job burnout through mediator variable selfefficacy,we found that the proposed model has a good fit and burnout is wellexplained by emotional intelligence and self-efficacy. Also all of the modelpath coefficients were significant.

Keywords:

Job Burnout , Emotional Intelligence , Self-Efficacy , Elementary Teachers