English as a foreign language teacher’s well-being, resilience, and burnout

Teaching poses a significant challenge for teachers as they are facing a plethora of stressors in their profession; consequently leading to burnout. So, it is fundamental to detect the issues that affect their burnout. For instance, it is essential to cultivate resilience which is the ability to persist and cope with difficulties and adversities in the process of teaching. Furthermore, it has been shown that the well-being of educators plays a critical role in this process, so this study tries to inspect the significance of these issues in the online teaching context. The study involved 341 English as a Foreign Language teachers who agreed to participate and were given three questionnaires to complete. Structural equation modeling was employed to study the structural model of the construct. The results indicated that teacher resilience accounted for 5.9% of the variance in teacher burnout, and teacher well-being was interpreted for 1.0% of the variance in teacher burnout. While each of the two constructs had a significant role in burnout, teacher resilience was a better predictor of burnout than well-being. Finally, the important implications and recommendations for professional development programs are presented.