The Relationship between Social Support and Job Burnout in Primary School Teachers: A Chain Mediation of Self-Efficacy and Job Satisfaction
Objective: To investigate and understand the influence and mechanism of social support on primary school teachers’ job burnout. Methods: 748 primary school teachers were sampled, and perceived social support scale, the scales of burnout, self-efficacy and job satisfaction were selected. Results: Perceived social support has a significantly positive correlation with self-efficacy (R = 0.232, P < 0.01) and job satisfaction (R = 0.241, P < 0.01) to varying degrees, and a negative correlation with job burnout (R = −0.209, P < 0.01). Self-efficacy is positively correlated with job satisfaction (R = 0.167, P < 0.05) and negatively correlated with job burnout (R = −0.210, P < 0.05). Job satisfaction has a negative correlation with job burnout (R = −0.177, P < 0.05). (2) Perceived social support significantly negatively predicts job burnout among primary school teachers, and also negatively predicts job burnout through self-efficacy, as well as job satisfaction predicting job burnout negatively. (3) Additionally, perceived social support can significantly negatively predict job burnout through the chain mediating effects of self-efficacy and job satisfaction. Conclusion: Self-efficacy and job satisfaction have a chain intermediary role in understanding the relationship between perceived social support and job burnout. Perceived social support can directly predict job burnout in primary school teachers, but also indirectly predict burnout through the intermediary effects of self-efficacy and job satisfaction.
Perceived Social Support
职业倦怠是指个体在长期职业压力下,不能合理地应对外界压力,在行为、情感、态度和思想方面表现出的一种衰竭状态,因缺乏应对资源的能力而产生的身心极度疲惫的综合反应,具体表现为情绪衰竭、去个性化和低成就感
领悟社会支持是个体自身被外界支持程度的主观感受与评价,包括个体领悟到和感受到的被支持、被理解和被尊重的情感体验
自我效能感是个体对自身是否运用自己所掌握的技能完成某种工作行为的信心程度
上述可得,领悟社会支持、自我效能和工作满意度与小学教师的职业倦怠存在关系,而小学教师的自我效能和工作满意度是否影响到领悟社会支持与职业倦怠的关系还尚不明确。本研究旨在全面探究小学教师的领悟社会支持对职业倦怠的影响机制,探讨自我效能感和工作满意度对职业倦怠的影响情况,为提高小学教师职业幸福感提供必要依据。
本文于2023年3月~5月选取广东省广州市、肇庆市15所小学802名教师完成问卷调查。采用线上(问卷星)问卷与现场纸质问卷相结合的方式开展问卷调查,线上发放667份调查问卷,现场纸质发放135份调查问卷,总共发放802,剔除无效问卷,得到总有效问卷748份,有效回收率为93.26%,线上有效问卷646份(86.63%),纸质有效问卷103份(13.37%)。性别情况:男性244人(32.62%),女性504人(67.38%);教学年龄情况:1~5年85人(11.36%),6~10年236人(31.55%),11~15年235人(31.42%),16~20年156人(20.86%),21年及以上36人(4.81%);职称状况:无职称125人(29.94%),初级职称254人(20.72%),中级职称324人(43.32%),高级职称45人(6.02%);婚姻状况:未婚358人(47.86%),已婚390人(52.14%);编制情况:无编制443人(59.22%),编制:305人(40.78%)。
职业倦怠量表采用伍新春修订的中小学教师职业倦怠问卷
工作满意度量表采用Brayfield编制的《工作描述指数法》来衡量个体一般的工作满意度
自我效能量表采用Schwarzer
领悟社会支持量表由Zimet等
采用Harman单因素法对共同方法偏差进行检验
M ± SD |
领悟社会支持 |
自我效能 |
工作满意度 |
职业倦怠 |
|
领悟社会支持 |
71.58 ± 3.806 |
1 |
|||
自我效能 |
33.89 ± 2.188 |
0.232** |
1 |
||
工作满意度 |
91.65 ± 4.696 |
0.241** |
0.167** |
1 |
|
职业倦怠 |
77.22 ± 4.246 |
−0.209** |
−0.210** |
−0.177** |
1 |
注:**P < 0.01。
由相关分析可知,采用结构方程模型对领悟社会支持、自我效能、工作满意度和职业倦怠中介关系探讨,通过Mplus8.3软件假设构建中介模型。
链式中介效应模型(见
中介路径 |
效应值 |
标准误 |
95% CI |
效应率 |
路径一:领悟社会支持–自我效能–职业倦怠 |
−0.041 |
0.019** |
−0.056 ~ −0.008 |
17.6% |
路径二:领悟社会支持–工作满意度–职业倦怠 |
−0.027 |
0.012** |
−0.052 ~ −0.009 |
11.6% |
路径三:链式中介路径 |
−0.004 |
0.003* |
−0.011 ~ −0.001 |
1.7% |
直接效应 |
−0.161 |
0.043** |
−0.234 ~ −0.064 |
69.1% |
总中介效应 |
−0.072 |
0.026** |
−0.127 ~ −0.025 |
30.9% |
总效应 |
−0.233 |
0.048** |
−0.314 ~ −0.129 |
*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01。
本研究结果表明,小学教师领悟社会支持、自我效能感和工作满意度与职业倦怠呈显著负相关,与前人的研究结果一致
结果显示,自我效能和工作满意度在领悟社会支持与职业倦怠之间存在中介作用。路径一:领悟社会支持→自我效能→职业倦怠路径的中介效应量占总效应比例较大,说明自我效能是领悟社会支持影响小学教师职业倦怠的重要中介变量。路径一:领悟社会支持负向预测职业倦怠,自我效能负向预测职业倦怠,与以往结果一致
本研究发现,自我效能正向预测工作满意度,并且小学教师的领悟社会支持可以通过自我效能与工作满意度的链式中介作用对职业倦怠产生直接效应,这与以往的研究一致
1) 领悟社会支持、职业倦怠、自我效能感和工作满意度存在相关关系,高领悟社会支持个体可以提升自我效能感和工作满意度,从而降低小学教师职业倦怠产生。