Self-kindness: Self-empathy involves being warm towards oneself when experiencing agony and individual inadequacies, as opposed to disregarding them or harming oneself with self-feedback.
Common humanity: Self-compassion additionally includes perceiving that misery and individual disappointment is a piece of the shared human experience.
Mindfulness: Self-compassion obliges taking an adjusted …show more content…
These factors eventually became known as the ―Big Five, a title chosen not to reflect their intrinsic greatness, but to emphasize that each of these factors is extremely broad.
The main variable of the study will be Teacher burnout that is considered as resulting from long term occupational stress, especially among human service workers, including teachers (Jennett, Harris, & Mesibov, 2003). Leiter and Maslach (1998) propose a process model of burnout which is displayed in Figure 1.1. In the center of this figure are three concepts of burnout i.e., exhaustion, depersonalization (or cynicism), and reduced personal accomplishment (or efficacy). Figure 1.1 Process model of burnout (Leiter & Maslach, 2001, p. 349)
Burnout is “an issue of particular concern for people-oriented occupations in which (a) the relationship between providers and recipients is central to the work and (b) the provision of education, service, or treatment can be a highly emotional experience” (Maslach, 1999, p. 209). So Teaching belongs to that kind of jobs in which burnout is widespread. As stated by Huberman & Vandenberghe (1999), the whole teacher burnout process in a school setting is related to different factors such as overload, inter-personal pressures, job uncertainty, as well as class size, demographic characteristics, heterogeneity of students, their …show more content…
2.Is there a significant relationship between EFL teachers’ personality traits and their Burn-out in Iran?
3. What components of EFL teachers’ self-compassion best correlate their burnout?
4. What components of EFL teachers’ Self-compassion predict their burnout?
5. What components of EFL teachers’ big-five personality traits predict their burnout?
1.4 Research Hypothesis
1. There is no a significant relationship between EFL teachers’ self-compassion and their Burn-out in Iran.
2. There is no a significant relationship between EFL teachers’ big-five personality traits and their Burn-out in Iran.
1.5 significance of the study
Self-compassion is newly introduced subject into the vast line of research done in ELT. And to the best of the researcher’s knowledge no study has ever explored the relationship between self-compassion and EFL teachers Burnout. This adds to the significance of the present study.
The study will try to explore the relationship between EFL teachers’self-compassion and their Burn-out. The study will also try to explore which components of self-compassion, namely, self-kindness, common humanity, correlate best with the components of