El Burnout del Profesorado Universitario y las Intenciones de Abandono: Un Estudio Multi-Muestra

Abstract

Past research has identified burnout, a chronic response to work stress, as an imbalance between job demands and job resources, and as an important predictor of intent to leave and ultimate turnover. However, most of the national and some of the international studies on professor burnout have been focused on identifying levels of burnout and its components more than on the course of the depletion process. With a sample of 885 faculty members represented of three universities of Spain, the hypothe- sized mediation effects of burnout on the relationship between job demands, interpersonal conflict and turnover intentions were analyzed. The findings demonstrate that burnout mediates the effects that demands and interpersonal conflict have on intent to leave. At the same time, job resources negatively pre- dicted turnover intention directly. The results support the applicability of an extended model of the Job Demands Resources Model to a sample of faculty members.