A tripartite model of EFL teacher attributions, burnout, and self-regulation: toward the prospects of effective teaching

Abstract

The present study aims at delving into English as foreign language teachers’ attributions by investigating the role of teacher attributions in teacher burnout and teacher self-regulation. This is accomplished by building a causal structural model through which the associations among these constructs are estimated. The results demonstrate that the proposed model has a good overall fit with the empirical data. It is also revealed that internal and controllable attributions positively predict teachers’ self-regulatory skills, whereas teacher burnout is associated with external and uncontrollable attributions.