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Bulletin of Practical Psychology of Education
2025. Vol. 22, no. 4, 321–337
doi:10.17759/bppe.2025220420
ISSN: 2658-3100 (online)

The relationship of emotional burnout of young teachers with job satisfaction and willingness to leave the profession

 
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Abstract

Context and relevance. The study is devoted to the problem of emotional burnout of young teachers, which negatively affects their professional satisfaction and increases the risk of leaving the profession. The relevance of the work is due to the crisis of teaching staff, the aging of the teaching staff and the high turnover of young professionals. Objective. To study the relationship of emotional burnout with job satisfaction and the intention to leave the profession among young teachers, as well as to identify differences between teachers of different levels of education. Hypothesis. Among young teachers, the level of emotional burnout is negatively associated with professional satisfaction and positively associated with the intention to leave teaching. There are significant differences in the level of emotional burnout, professional satisfaction, and intention to leave the profession among young teachers at different levels of education (preschool, general secondary, vocational secondary, and higher). Methods and materials. The study involved 610 young teachers from Russia: 567 women (93%) and 43 men (7%), the average age of the respondents was 31.02 years (SD = 6.26), and the average teaching experience was 7.29 years (SD = 5.87). The BAT (“Burnout Assessment Tool”) methodology was used to assess burnout and the author's questionnaire to measure job satisfaction and willingness to leave the profession. The data was analyzed using correlation and variance analysis. Results. Strong negative correlations were found between emotional burnout and job satisfaction, as well as positive correlations with the intention to leave the profession. School teachers demonstrate the highest level of burnout, kindergarten teachers maintain high satisfaction despite stress, and university teachers have low satisfaction with moderate burnout. The willingness to completely leave the profession is more strongly associated with burnout than the intention to change jobs or positions. Conclusions. The study confirms the critical impact of emotional burnout on the professional maladaptation of teachers. The results highlight the need for differentiated burnout prevention measures for different categories of teachers, as well as the importance of professional identity support for staff retention in the education system.

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Keywords: emotional burnout, young teachers, job satisfaction, staff turnover, retirement from the profession

Journal rubric: Psychology of Self-Determination of the Personality in Education and Profession

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/bppe.2025220420

Received 30.06.2025

Revised 03.09.2025

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For citation: Vorobyeva, I.V., Matveeva, A.I. (2025). The relationship of emotional burnout of young teachers with job satisfaction and willingness to leave the profession. Bulletin of Practical Psychology of Education, 22(4), 321–337. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17759/bppe.2025220420

© Vorobyeva I.V., Matveeva A.I., 2025

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Information About the Authors

Irina V. Vorobyeva, Candidate of Science (Psychology), Head of the Department of Scientific Research and Project Activities, Ural State Pedagogical University, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0561-3888, e-mail: lorisha@mail.ru

Alena I. Matveeva, Ural State Pedagogical University, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9595-3458, e-mail: lyonchik_7777@list.ru

Contribution of the authors

Irina V. Vorobyeva — conceptualization, idea of research; planning of research; control of research; writing and registration of the manuscript.

Alyona I. Matveeva — data collection and analysis; application of statistical and mathematical methods for data analysis, data administration, writing and formatting of a manuscript.

All authors participated in the discussion of the results and approved the final text of the manuscript.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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