Although there is no strong confirmation of the direct link between teachers?
attitudes towards and opinions on inclusion and teaching outcomes, they do
predict the undesirable manifestations, such as teacher burnout. The aim of
this paper was to determine the extent to which teachers? opinions on the
education of students with different disabilities predict burnout, over and
above the basic personality traits. In order to measure teachers? opinions,
the MSK questionnaire was constructed. Personality characteristics were
measured by the Big Five Inventory, and burnout was measured by the
Copenhagen Burnout Inventory. The sample consisted of 645 primary school
teachers from the Republic of Srpska. Using exploratory factor analysis, two
MSK factors (60.87% variance) were obtained: (1) the feasibility of teaching
the students with psychological difficulties, and (2) the feasibility of
teaching the students with sensorimotor difficulties. The factors explained
a small amount of variance of burnout. However, the first factor showed
significant incremental predictability for burnout, in addition to
personality traits, which suggests a small but significant contribution of
the opinions on the education of students with disabilities to understanding
the teacher burnout syndrome in the context of inclusion. At the same time,
the results imply that, from the point of view of potential prevention, the
knowledge of teachers? personality is probably much more important than
their opinions on this topic.