“…Studies have shown that teacher characteristics, working conditions and school climate, as well as student characteristics, are all associated with teacher burnout (Borman & Dowling, 2008;Guarino, Santibanez & Daley, 2006). Among individual variables, several demographic variables (such as age, gender and marital status), personality structure, coping strategies or perceived self-sufficiency have been examined (Boles, Dean, Ricks, Short & Wang, 2000;Burisch, 2002;Dorman, 2003;Griffith, Pennington, Wehner & Rogers, 1999;McElfatrick et al, 2000;van Dick & Wagner, 2001;Yoleri & Bostanci, 2012;Zellars, Perrewe & Hochwarter, 2000). Cordes, Dougherty and Blum (1997) also categorised three groups of factors that dominate a person prior to burnout: job and role characteristics, organisational characteristics and character and temperament characteristics.…”