Chapter 12: “You Are Who You Are”: A Mixed Method Study of Affectivity and Emotional Regulation in Curbing Teacher Burnout

This chapter takes a unique perspective on personality and stress and coping in education to examine the contribution of each to teacher burnout. As presented throughout this book, many education researchers utilize the five-factor model (FFM; McCrae & John, 1992) to describe and study personality. Similarly, the works of Hobfoll (1988) or Lazarus and Folkman (1984) tend to dominate the stress and coping discussions in education. We contend that personality and stress and coping scholarship in education would gain both empirically and practically from understanding the integrative role of global trait affect characteristics (i.e., affectivity) and the regulation of emotional states (i.e., emotional regulation). The education-specific stress variable we frame this investigation around is teacher burnout.