Stress, burnout and resilience of teachers of students with emotional behavioural challenges

146 EBC teachers of the seven Social Development Schools were invited to complete the questionnaire. Five existing instruments were adapted to form the questionnaire: the Source of Teacher Stress Scale, the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educator Scale, the Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale, the Resilience Scale, and the Collective Teacher Self-efficacy Scale. The analysis of the questionnaire data began with the development of descriptive statistics and moved to multiple regression (path) analysis to ascertain the relations among stress, burnout and resilience. In-depth interviews were conducted with 11 of the 106 respondents who rated themselves as resilient and who volunteered to participate in semi-structured interviews. Transcripts of the interviews were analyzed to identify and detail the significant factors and actions involved in the teachers’ resilience to burnout. Results