The purpose of this study is to find out the mediating effect of silencing the self and anger rumination in the relationship between job-related interpersonal stress (fellow teacher, principal relationship stress, student, and parent relationship stre...
The purpose of this study is to find out the mediating effect of silencing the self and anger rumination in the relationship between job-related interpersonal stress (fellow teacher, principal relationship stress, student, and parent relationship stress) and burnout of elementary school teachers, and to verify the difference in mediating effect by job relationship type. To this end, 393 elementary school teachers nationwide prepared online questionnaires using the job-related interpersonal stress scale, silencing the self scale, the anger rumination scale, and teacher burnout inventory, and collected data in a self-report questionnaire method. Technical statistics, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, and sequential mediating effect analysis were performed using SPSS 25.0 and Mplus 7, and the statistical significance of the mediating effect was verified by applying the bootstrapping method.
The results of this study are summarized as follows. First, job-related interpersonal stress, silencing the self, anger rumination, and burnout all showed statically significant correlations. Second, silencing the self showed a single mediating effect in the relationship between stress and burnout with fellow teachers and principals, but anger rumination did not show a single mediating effect. In the relationship between stress and burnout with fellow teachers and principals, silencing the self and anger rumination showed sequential mediating effects. Third, in terms of job-related interpersonal stress and burnout with students and parents, Silencing the self showed a single mediating effect, but anger rumination did not show a single mediating effect. In the relationship between job-related interpersonal stress and burnout with students and parents, self-silencing and anger rumination were sequentially mediated. Fourth, as a result of verifying the effect of fellow teacher, principal relationship stress, student, and parent relationship stress on mediating variables, it was found that the difference in mediating effects by variable was not statistically significant. This suggests that elementary school teachers are experiencing stress evenly in all relationships.
Finally, discussions, limitations, and directions for subsequent studies based on research results were presented.
Key terms; elementary school teacher, job-related interpersonal stress, silencing the self, anger rumination, burnout