New paper reviews the existing literature on burnout in post-secondary academics
A new paper published by ECP's Zaynab Sabagh, Nathan C. Hall and Alenoush Saroyan provides an in-depth review of the literature and research regarding burnout for post-secondary faculty. "Antecedents, correlates and consequences of faculty burnout" was published this May by Educational Research.
"Surveys of academics in the UK, Australia and Canada have found increased stress to be a growing concern. Increase in workload and the often conflicting demands that teaching, research and service place on academics have been found to contribute to faculty distress and burnout," write the authors in their introduction. "A comprehensive review of the exiting empirical literature on burnout among academics is thus required to better identify critical antecedents, correlates and consequences of this salient yet underexplored issue."
The new paper synthesizes and examines published findings with the goal of understanding the processes and challenges integral to academic well-being, and follows up on a 2017 review by ECP's Raheleh Salimzadeh and Profs. Hall and Saroyan, "Examining the Factors Impacting Academics’ Psychological Well-Being: A Review of Research".
Zaynab Sabagh is a doctoral candidate with the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology's (ECP) Learning Sciences program. Dr. Nathan Hall is Associate Professor with ECP and Director of the Achievement Motivation and Emotion (AME) Research Group. Dr. Alenoush Saroyan is Professor with ECP, Graduate Program Director, Learning Sciences Program and Health Professions Education Programs, and Director with the Higher Education Research Group (HERG).
[read Zaynab Sabagh, Nathan C. Hall & Alenoush Saroyan (2018) "Antecedents, correlates and consequences of faculty burnout," Educational Research, DOI: 10.1080/00131881.2018.1461573]
By stephen.lalla [at] mcgill.ca (Stephen Lalla), Communications, McGill Faculty of Education
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