Page No 85-93
Hanfa Nazeer and Aisha Zubair
National Institute of Psychology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
The present research aimed to investigate the relationship among negative affectivity,
coping strategies, and burnout among school teachers. It was also intended to examine
the role of gender, type of school, and job experience in relation to variables of the study.
A stratified random sample (N = 300) comprising school teachers including both men
and women was acquired from schools. Results indicated that negative affectivity was
significantly positively related with religious denial coping and burnout; while negatively
related with positive coping, active coping and problem focused coping. Regression
analysis found negative affectivity and religious denial coping as significant predictors of
burnout. Results also indicated that female teachers reflected more negative affectivity,
religious denial coping, and burnout; while men exhibited more problem focused coping
style. Findings also indicated that teachers with lesser job experience and working in
private schools reflected elevated levels of negative affectivity, religious denial coping,
and burnout.