Modeling the Structure of job Burnout based on Covid-19 Anxiety, Quality of Life and Psychological Well-Being Mediated by Teachers' Job Stress

The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the mediating role of job stress in the relationship between anxiety of Covid-19, quality of life and psychological well-being with job burnout of teachers in Ahvaz city.

The current research method was descriptive-correlation type. For this purpose, 365 teachers of the fourth education district of Ahvaz were selected by cluster random sampling. The tools of this research included the Maslech Job Burnout Scale, the Alipour et al. Corona Disease Anxiety Scale, the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale, the Ryff Psychological Well-being Scale and the Palis Occupational Stress of Teachers Scale. Evaluation of the proposed model was done through structural equation modeling. In order to test the indirect effects, the bootstrap method was used in Preachers and Hayes program.

The results indicated that corona disease anxiety has a significant positive effect on job burnout. Quality of life and psychological well-being have significant negative effects on job burnout. Job stress has a significant positive effect on job burnout. Corona disease anxiety has a significant positive effect on job stress. Quality of life and psychological well-being have significant negative effects on job stress. The results indicate that job stress plays a mediating role in the relationship between covid-19 anxiety, quality of life and psychological well-being with job burnout of teachers in Ahvaz city.

Based on these findings, it can be concluded that by reducing the anxiety of covid-19 and increasing the quality of life and psychological well-being, the level of job stress of teachers can be reduced so that these factors together provide them with conditions that reduce job burnout.