Towards an understanding of teacher attrition: A meta-analysis of burnout, job satisfaction, and teachers’ intentions to quit
verifiedrich profile · Teaching and Teacher Education · 2021
Madigan, Daniel J.; Kim, Lisa E.
What this article reports
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burnout → turnover intention
job satisfaction → turnover intention
Models this article informs
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burnout predicts turnover intention
job satisfaction correlates turnover intention
job satisfaction predicts turnover intention
What the literature says about it
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supports “A study on teachers (Madigan & Kim, 2021) reported that job satisfaction was inversely related to the intention to quit.”
supports “This pattern has been demonstrated in studies indicating that emotional labor contributes to job burnout, which then increases turnover intention (Lee, 2019; Madigan and Kim, 2021; Li and Yao, 2022).”
supports “A recent meta-analysis concluded that symptoms of burnout show a significant positive relationship with teachers’ intentions to quit, and that the risk of teacher attrition from burnout may be increasing over time [11].”
supports “Burned out educators experience low job satisfaction (Smetackova et al., 2019) and are more likely to have turnover intentions (Madigan & Kim, 2021).”
supports “Previous studies have demonstrated that job burnout is a critical factor influencing preschool teachers‘ turnover intention (Li and Yao, 2022; Madigan and Kim, 2021).”
supports “Teachers who feel undervalued often report less job satisfaction, which is associated with low teachers’ morale and increased intention to quit (Madigan & Kim, 2021).”
supports “At the institutional level, burnout contributes to teachers’ intentions to quit (Madigan & Kim, 2021b).”
supports “Our findings highlight the positive association between higher levels of commitment, job satisfaction, and work quality and teachers’ intentions to remain in their roles (Madigan & Kim, 2021).”
Ancillary research
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