Psychological Development and Education ›› 2021, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (5): 743-751.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2021.05.16

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The Effect of Transformational Leadership on Teachers' Job Burnout: The Chain Mediating Role of Social Emotional Competence and Well-being

TIAN Jin, MAO Yaqing, XIONG Huaxia   

  1. Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Published:2021-09-23

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Abstract: In order to explore the relationship among transformational leadership, teachers' social emotional competence, teachers' well-being, and teachers' job burnout, the research uses transformational leadership scale, teachers' social emotional competence scale, teachers' well-being scale and teachers' job burnout scale to conduct investigation on 791 teachers in Beijing. The result showed that:(1) the transformational leadership was significantly and negatively correlated with teachers' job burnout; (2) the teachers' social emotional competence played an independent intermediary role in the relationship between transformational leadership and job burnout; (3) the teachers' well-being played an independent intermediary role in the relationship between transformational leadership and job burnout; (4) the teachers' social emotional competence and well-being showed a chain mediating effect in the relationship between the transformational leadership and teachers' job burnout. To conclude, transformational leadership is not only an important external environmental factor that can directly predict teachers' job burnout, but can also predict teacher's job burnout through the intermediary roles of teachers' social emotional competence and well-being.

Key words: transformational leadership, job burnout, social emotional competence, well-being

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  • B844
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