Does student problem behavior necessarily exacerbate teacher burnout? ERI moderates the protective effect of student gratitude on teacher burnout

Does student problem behavior necessarily exacerbate teacher burnout? 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ERI moderates the protective effect of student gratitude on teacher burnout Xiying Li, Ming Gao, Chuang Ren, zhongling pi This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6659767/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Under Revision Version 1 posted 10 You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract The present study aimed to test the relationships among student problem behaviors, student gratitude, teacher burnout, and ERI using a moderated mediation analysis based on the buffer effect and effort-reward imbalance (ERI) models. Measures of teacher burnout, student problem behaviors, student gratitude, and ERI were recorded for 441 teachers. The results revealed that student gratitude partially mediated the association between student problem behaviors and teacher burnout/depersonalization. Furthermore, the ERI moderated the effect of student gratitude. In fact, when the ERI was high (ERI ≥ 2), student gratitude did not significantly predict teacher burnout/depersonalization. Conversely, when ERI was low (ERI < 2), student gratitude was negatively correlated with teacher burnout/depersonalization. These findings suggest a protecting effect of student gratitude on teacher burnout and an effect of student problem behaviors and ERI on teacher burnout. Humanities/Health humanities Social science/Psychology teacher burnout ERI student gratitude student problem behavior moderated mediation Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. 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