mediating role of teachers self-efficacy in the relationship between primary teachers emotional intelligence and job burnout in babol city

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and self-efficacy with job burnout among primary school teachers in babol (mazandaran, iran). this is a descriptive correlational study clearly based on structural equation modeling (sem). the participants of this study were 225 of public primary school teachers in babol in academic year 2013-14 that were selected via cluster random sampling method. participants completed maslach and jackson's job burnout inventory (mbi) (1996), teacher self-efficacy questionnaire (by tschannen-moran, woolfolk, 2001) and emotional intelligence questionnaire (by schutte, 1998) and reliability and validity of these questionnaires were obtained. results of pearson correlation showed that all emotional intelligence, job burnout and self-efficacy components are mutually correlated with each other (p<0.01). implementing structural equation modeling (sem) for casual relationship between emotional intelligence and job burnout through mediator variable selfefficacy, we found that the proposed model has a good fit and burnout is well explained by emotional intelligence and self-efficacy. also all of the model path coefficients were significant.