Authors
Noémie Carbonneau, Robert J Vallerand, Claude Fernet, Frédéric Guay
Publication date
2008/11
Journal
Journal of educational psychology
Volume
100
Issue
4
Pages
977
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Description
The purpose of this study was to determine the role of passion in teachers' burnout symptoms, work satisfaction, and perceptions of positive student classroom behaviors. The dualistic model of passion (Vallerand et al., 2003) proposes 2 types of passion: harmonious and obsessive. In previous studies, harmonious passion has been shown to lead to adaptive outcomes (eg, well-being and satisfaction), whereas obsessive passion has been shown to lead to less adaptive outcomes (eg, shame and negative affect). In this study, 494 teachers completed measures of passion for teaching and various outcomes associated with the teaching profession twice over a 3-month period. Results of a cross-lag model based on structural equation modeling revealed that increases in harmonious passion for teaching predicted increases in work satisfaction and decreases in burnout symptoms over time, while changes in obsessive …
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N Carbonneau, RJ Vallerand, C Fernet, F Guay - Journal of educational psychology, 2008