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Teacher burnout is a critical factor in the educational process, as it greatly affects educational work. However, Positive Psychology is a special factor for strengthening teachers' mental health, so that they can cope with the demands of school life. Music promotes positive emotions and helps to cope with emotional challenges. Considering that it functions as a means for the flourishing of mental health and as a tool for stimulating positive emotions, it can be linked to Positive Psychology. In this light, the aim of the present study is, firstly, to find the level of burnout of Primary Education teachers, secondly, the degree of effect of music on Positive Psychology and the correlation of the above with professional burnout. The research sample consists of 201 teachers, the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and the Music and Positive Psychology Questionnaire were used.
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Eri Mavropouly is a music teacher, musicologist and PhD candidate at the Department of Music Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She obtained her first degree in Music at the University of Athens, and then did a postgraduate course on Theory, Practice and Evaluation in Education at the same University. She has presented her work on teachers' burnout in various conferences in Greece and she has been awarded a conference prize in the 8th International conference on Society, Education and Politics (IAKE) which took place in Herakleion, Crete in 2022.
Christina Anagnostopoulou is an Associate Professor at the Department of Music Studies, University of Athens, as well as the director of the Cognition, Computation and Community Music Lab at the same University. She has previously taught at the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Queen's Belfast. Her research interests include computational and cognitive musicology, music informatics, music psychology and community music.
