What is it about?
Teaching is an emotional job, as it requires to manage the classroom, fulfill demands from principals and administration, manage school-family relationships, etc. When teachers feel they cannot sustain the emotional demands of their job, they are at risk for burnout. Being burnt-out, in turn, may alter the way teachers students' and own emotions .
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Why is it important?
Our findings show that emotinoally exhausted and cynical teachers are more likely to perceive and report higher negative emotions towards students when compared to non-burnt-out teachers.
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I hope this article contributes to the debate about the need to protect educators' mental health, and promote their well-being. This is important not only for policies and institutions, but for single workers and individuals, too. We need to acknowledge that being a teacher means to be a helping professional: therefore, we need to provide teachers with preventive and health-promotion devices and practices.
Ilaria Buonomo
Libera Universita Maria Santissima Assunta
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This page is a summary of: At-Risk Teachers: The Association Between Burnout Levels and Emotional Appraisal Processes, The Open Psychology Journal, August 2017, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/1874350101710010127.
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