Predicting marriage burnout based on mindfulness, psychological flexibility, and coping styles

The present study aims to determine the forecast of mindfulness, psychological flexibility, and coping styles regarding teacher marriage burnout.

Data-collection instruments include Paine’s Marital Burnout Questionnaire (1996), Nis and Vander Walj’s Cognitive Flexibility Questionnaire, Endler and Parker’s Coping Style Questionnaire, and Bayer et al.’s Five-scale Mindfulness Scale (2006).

Findings of the study indicate that the total mindfulness score and the subscales had a significant correlation with marriage burnout. Also, there was a significant negative correlation between the total score of psychological flexibility and the subscales– understanding controllability, understanding various options, and understanding behavior justification– and marriage burnout. In addition, there was a significant negative correlation between problem-focused coping style and marriage burnout. Also, avoidance coping style had a significant positive correlation with marriage burnout. Conversely, no significant correlation was found between emotional coping style and marriage burnout. Furthermore, according to the regression model, 26.3% of marriage burnout changes could be determined by lack of judgment (mindfulness), lack of response (mindfulness), problem-focused coping style, and avoidance coping style.

Overall, mindfulness, psychological flexibility, and coping styles are significant predictors of teacher marriage burnout. Therefore, teacher marriage burnout could be alleviated by creating some potential.