Motivation, Emotional Exhaustion, and Performance of Public School Teachers: A Test of Mediation

The study aims to determine the mediating role of emotional exhaustion on the motivation and performance of public school teachers. A quantitative descriptive-correlational method will be employed in this study. A total of 303 public school teachers in Governor Generoso, Davao Oriental, were surveyed. The collected data using adapted survey questionnaires were analyzed using mean, correlational analysis, and mediation analysis using Sobel-Z test. The findings of the study revealed that the level of motivation was described as high, the level of teachers performance was described as very high, and the level of emotional exhaustion was described as moderate. Also, there was a strong significant correlation between motivation and teacher performance, and motivation and emotional exhaustion of all the measures are less than the significant alpha value. However, there was a negative correlation between emotional exhaustion and teacher performance. The result implies that the relationship is extremely weak, suggesting almost no relationship between the overall emotional exhaustion and teacher performance.