Investigating the link between teachers’ burnout and technology through the network psychometrics analysis: A survey of educators from diverse schools and grade level

Driven by the interest to further explore these topics, we conducted a study specifically aimed at investigating the link between burnout and the use of technology by teachers. To achieve this, we reached out to both support teachers and teachers from various disciplines in primary, lower secondary, and upper secondary schools across Italy. To gather data from teachers residing in different regions of the country, we employed a web-survey as our primary data collection method. Through a network psychometrics analysis (Epskamp et al., 2012), we checked if three groupteachers from primary, middle and high school differ in terms of the relationship between burnout and knowledge and pedagogical competencies about technology and its effective use during classroom activities. The remainder of the paper is organised as follows. After this introduction, Section 2, gives insights about participants, instruments and methodology for data analysis. Section 3, presents the main results of the empirical analysis carried out to investigate the link between teachers’ burnout and technology, while the final Section offers the main conclusions from the paper.