Teacher burnout and the influence of personality thereon, as well as that of organisational and environmental conditions, have been discussed in several studies. Until now, this syndrome has mainly been observed in teachers who have spent many years in the profession. Additionally, there is little clarity offered by those studies as to when the burnout process begins. Recently a few studies have indicated burnout evidence among student and novice teacher samples (e.g., Dückers-Klichowski, 2005), therefore our study used a sample group of 75 student teachers in an attempt to discover whether or not a specific personality structure is more susceptible to the onset of burnout at an earlier stage. In line with Hobfoll's (1998) conception of spirals of resources loss, the study aimed firstly to establish levels of burnout among the sample and, secondly, to investigate correlations between these levels and the subjects´ own individual and social coping styles, as well as motivation.
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