| Revista INFAD 2012 |
ISSN EDICIÓN EN PAPEL: 0214-9877 |
| Nº1, Vol. 4, pp. 93-102 | doi: en trámite |
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Personalidade resiliente ao burnout: estrategias de coping.
María Consuelo Morán / Maria Ilidia Silva. pp. 93-102
Abstract
To know the profile of resilient personality checking the coping strategies used by teachers in presence of chronic stress at work was the aim of this study. Data were collected through the MBI (Maslach Burnout Inventory) to assess burnout and the Brief Cope to evaluate coping strategies. They were 94 Portuguese teachers from the pre-school education until secondary school the sample choice to make this study. Resilience refers to the tendency to cope stress and adversity. This coping may result vigorous to people that previous state of normal functioning. They make use of the expe-rience of exposure to adversity to produce a steeling effect and function better than expected. The burnout syndrome affects especially to people working with people, like teachers, physicians, or psychologists. Brief Cope was created to assess the following fourteen coping strategies that the plus part of people uses to coping problems with stress. The correlational methodology was used in this study. The results pointed to the coping strategies defining resilience to burnout was active coping, positive reframing, and planning. In other side, use of coping strategies like denial and behavioral disengagement are correlated with a major degree of burnout.
Keywords: Resilience; coping; burnout; teachers.
