Burnout syndrome is has been associated with mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, and stress. Given this fact, some teachers implement various coping strategies for emotional control that are not always functional to mitigate such difficulties. Accordingly, this study aimed to identify different burnout profiles that vary in the levels of the three underlying dimensions: depersonalization (DE), emotional exhaustion (EE), and personal accomplishment (PA). Further, this study aimed to examine whether there are significant differences in depressive symptomatology, coping strategies, and the quality of interpersonal relationships at school between teachers with varying burnout profiles. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS), Coping with Stress Questionnaire, and a questionnaire that measured sociodemographic characteristics were administered to 215 teachers (men: 42.8%) who were recruited from various secondary schools. Cluster analysis identified three different burnout profiles: groups of teachers with a predominance of (a) low levels of EE and high levels of PA, (b) high levels of EE and DE, and (c) low levels of DE and PA. The results revealed that there were significant differences in coping strategies, depressive symptomatology, and the quality of interpersonal relationships at school between teachers with different burnout profiles. These results have important implications for educational professionals. Specifically, the findings underscore the need for prevention and intervention programs that enhance teachers' emotional skills, especially their ability to cope with exhaustion. These skills will alleviate their depression and consequently offer both teachers and students a conducive learning environment.

Burnout is a reality in the teaching profession. Specifically, teaching staff usually have higher burnout rates. The present study aims to analyze the different burnout profiles and to verify if there were differences between burnout profiles in depressive symptomatology and in the self-esteem of the teachers at school. The total number of participants was 210 teachers from 30 to 65 years. The first scale was the Maslach burnout inventory, the second scale was the Self-Rating depression scale and the third scale was the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. The latent class analysis identified three burnout profiles: the first group with a high level of emotional exhaustion, low personal accomplishment and depersonalization (high burnout); the second group with low emotional exhaustion, low depersonalization and high personal accomplishment (low burnout) and the third group with low depersonalization, low emotional exhaustion and low personal accomplishment (moderate burnout). The results revealed that there were differences in depressive symptomatology (group 1 obtained higher scores than group 2 and group 3) and self-esteem (group 2 obtained higher scores than group 1). The psychological balance and health of teachers depend on preventing the factors that have been associated with this syndrome.

Resumen: La vivencia de situaciones de riesgo social forma parte de un comportamiento ampliamente compartido entre adolescentes. Entre estas conductas destacan el abuso de sustancias adictivas y los problemas de relación familiar y escolar, con especial mención al bullying, que se perfila, cada vez con mayor claridad, como una disfunción social. El trabajo que aquí presentamos plantea (1) el análisis de diversas conductas de riesgo social y de bienestar personal en adolescentes (N=1239) estudiantes de educación secundaria obligatoria (612 chicos y 627 chicas) y, (2) una propuesta contextualizada de intervención en un grupo aula (n= 27), donde se detectaron 2 alumnos agresores, 2 víctimas y 1 alumno víctima-provocador. Los resultados indican que más del 25% de alumnos realizan acciones con riesgo social y para su salud, destacando el consumo de drogas y conducir bajo los efectos del alcohol. Las tasas de consumo son similares para chicos y chicas, y mayor entre los chicos para otras acciones de riesgo. Así mismo, encontramos una alta relación entre las diferentes conductas de riesgo, fracaso escolar y participación en bullying. El análisis del grupo aula intacto reveló que los agresores presentan un elevado fracaso escolar y realizan actividades predelictivas que encuentran apoyo en sus amigos y familiares. La propuesta de intervención para este grupo va dirigida no solo a los implicados, sino también a los diferentes agentes educativos. Palabras clave: riesgo social; consumo de drogas; fracaso escolar; adolescencia; bullying; programa intervención; relaciones interpersonales.Title: Social and health risk behaviours in adolescents. Context intervention proposal for a bullying case. Abstract: Social and personal risk behaviours are extending behaviours among adolescents. Drugs abuse and problems in family and school relationships stand out among these behaviours, where bullying is detected, every time more, as a social dysfunction. This paper presents (1) the analysis of some social and personal well being risk behaviour among adolescents (N=1239) secondary school pupils, (612 boys and 627 girls) and (2) a context intervention proposal for a classgroup (n=27), where bullying were detected performed by 2 bullies, 2 victims and 1 provoke-victim pupils. Findings point out that, more than one in four pupils shows social and health risk behaviour, such as drugs abuse or drive under alcoholics' effects. We did not find differences in drugs consume between boys and girls but boys score higher in other risk behaviours. We also observed high relations among risk behaviours, scholar failure and bullying. Analysis for the intact group-class revealed that bully pupils present a high level of scholar failure and perpetrate other delinquent actions and they find support in their friends and family. The intervention proposal for this group is oriented not only for those pupils involved in bullying, but also for all educative agents.

The COVID-19 global health emergency has greatly impacted the educational field. Faced with unprecedented stress situations, professors, students, and families have employed various coping and resilience strategies throughout the confinement period. High and persistent stress levels are associated with other pathologies; hence, their detection and prevention are needed. Consequently, this study aimed to design a predictive model of stress in the educational field based on artificial intelligence that included certain sociodemographic variables, coping strategies, and resilience capacity, and to study the relationship between them. The non-probabilistic snowball sampling method was used, involving 337 people (73% women) from the university education community in south-eastern Spain. The Perceived Stress Scale, Stress Management Questionnaire, and Brief Resilience Scale were administered. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (version 24) was used to design the architecture of artificial neural networks. The results found that stress levels could be predicted by the synaptic weights of coping strategies and timing of the epidemic (before and after the implementation of isolation measures), with a predictive capacity of over 80% found in the neural network model. Additionally, direct and significant associations were identified between the use of certain coping strategies, stress levels, and resilience. The conclusions of this research are essential for effective stress detection, and therefore, early intervention in the field of educational psychology, by discussing the influence of resilience or lack thereof on the prediction of stress levels. Identifying the variables that maintain a greater predictive power in stress levels is an effective strategy to design more adjusted prevention programs and to anticipate the needs of the community.

Bullying and cyberbullying are important global issues with negative consequences for physical and mental health in education. The objective of this study was to analyze to what extent some dimensions of emotional intelligence predict certain manifestations of bullying and cyberbullying in adolescents. The total number of subjects recruited in compulsory secondary education schools, was 309 (53.1% female). Their ages ranged from 12 to 16 (M = 14.17, SD = 1.4). The used instruments were the school violence questionnaire and the emotional coefficient inventory; the study design was cross-sectional. Results showed that the score increases on some scales (adaptability, stress management, and interpersonal) involved a greater risk of increasing the likelihood of social perception the different manifestations of school violence. However, in the general mood, the increase in this variable score implied lower perceiving in likelihood of violent behavior. It is important to take into account preventive actions aimed at improving school life and, above all, to alleviate difficulties in managing stress, adaptability, and interpersonal relationships.

The main objective of this study is to analyze the relationship between peer school victimization and some risk and protection factors and to compare the differences by role in victimization with those of non-involved bystanders. Our participants were 1,264 secondary students (M = 14.41, SD = 1.43) who participated voluntarily, although an informed consent was requested. A logistic regression model (LR) was used in order to identify the victim’s potential risks and protective factors related to non-involved bystanders. A multiple LR and a forward stepwise LR (Wald) were used. The results showed the variables related to the victim profile were: individual features (to be male, to be at the first cycle of compulsory Secondary Education and a few challenging behaviors), school environments (i.e., school adjustment), family environment (parental styles like authoritarianism) and social environment (i.e., friends who occasionally show a positive attitude toward drug consumption and easy access to drugs, access to drugs perceived as easy, rejection by peers or lack of social acceptance and social maladjustment). The results of the study will allow tackling prevention and intervention actions in schools, families, and social environment in order to improve coexistence at school and to assist the victimized students in the classroom.

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La convivencia entre escolares se está convirtiendo en un grave problema en nuestras aulas. Los docentes tienen serios problemas para hacer frente a conductas perturbadoras entre los estudiantes (agresiones verbales y físicas, consumo de drogas, etc.). Por otra parte, los estudios apuntan que el consumo de drogas forma parte de la vida de muchos adolescentes, considerando que estamos ante una “normalización” de su consumo. El objetivo de nuestra investigación es indagar las posibles asociaciones entre los implicados en bullying y la realización de determinadas conductas de riesgo para la salud (por ejemplo, consumo de sustancias adictivas). Sobre una muestra de 886 estudiantes de Enseñanza Secundaria Obligatoria, se administraron los instrumentos de evaluación siguientes: el Test BULL-S y una encuesta elaborada ah hoc sobre conductas de riesgo para la salud. Los resultados indican que el 20.8% están implicados en bullying en sus distintos roles. Entre las variables seleccionadas, los agresores destacan en: consumo de tabaco y de alcohol así como en otras conductas que implican un alto riesgo para la salud.