“…Investigating teachers' burnout merits serious attention since as Wright, Hom, and Sanders (1997, p. 63) rightly put it, "more can be done to improve education by improving the effectiveness of teachers than by any other single factor" and if teachers cannot function effectively due to burnout syndrome, the consequences of this problem "may be frustrating for both teachers and learners in the teaching and learning process" (Cephe, 2010, p. 25). Lots of studies have so far been conducted on teachers' burnout from different perspectives all over the world including in the Iranian context; nevertheless, the majority of studies done in Iran examined the possible relationships between burnout and different factors such as emotional intelligence (e.g., Alavinia & Ahmadzadeh, 2012;Jabbari & Homayoun, 2014;Vaezi & Fallah, 2011), emotional intelligence and reflectivity (Mahmoodi & Ghaslani 2014), autonomy (Javadi, 2014), creativity (Ghonsooly & Raeesi, 2012), biographical variables (Mehrabi & Radi, 2015), personality types (Sadeghi, Ofoghi, Niyafar, & Dadashi, 2015), age and years of teaching experience (Rostami, Ghanizadeh, & Ghapanchi, 2015), instruction procedures (Soleimani & Abbaszadeh, 2010), critical thinking (Yaghoubi & Habibinejad, 2015), teacher efficacy, teaching style, and emotional intelligence (Akbari & Tavassoli, 2011), personality and emotional intelligence (Pishghadam & Sahebjam, 2012), and self-efficacy (Marandi, Baghelani, & Azizi, 2015;Mashhady, Fallah, & Lotfi Gaskaree, 2012;Motallebzadeh, Ashraf, & Tabatabaee Yazdi, 2014). What is worthy of notice is that first, we need to know teacher burnout and to identify the factors which contribute to this problem and then, to investigate its relationship with other factors and variables.…”