"Teacher burnout: construct equivalence and the role of union membership"
Jaco Pienaar
South Africa
Jaco Pienaar is Senior Lecturer and Researcher at Workwell, the Research Unit for People, Policy and Performance at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus). His research interests include occu-pational
stress and its individual moderators, coping, and dysfunctional behaviour at work.
Debri van Wyk
South Africa
Debri van Wyk is an Industrial Psychologist at Assessment Centre Technologies (ACT) in Cape Town.
He is completing his doctorate at the North-West University, focusing on wellbeing of teachers in the Free State. Aspects covered are burnout, work engagement, educator stress, and moderating effect of optimism.