The impact of job satisfaction on teacher occupational burnout: A moderated mediation model

Abstract

Abstract Previous studies have found that job satisfaction can negatively predict occupational burnout. However, there is relatively little research on primary and secondary school teachers. Further exploration is needed on the mechanism by which job satisfaction affects occupational burnout. We constructed a moderated mediation model using a questionnaire to examine the mediating role of psychological capital between job satisfaction and occupational burnout and the moderating role of physical exercise in the above mediating pathway, with 496 primary and secondary school teachers in China as participants. The results showed that job satisfaction has a negative relationship with occupational burnout and a positive relationship with psychological capital. There is a negative relationship between psychological capital and occupational burnout. Further, psychological capital plays a partial mediating role between job satisfaction and job burnout, and physical exercise moderated this mediation path. Implications of the findings are discussed.