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Teaching demands, mindfulness, and assessment workload as predictors of burnout among college of education lecturers: a mediation-moderation analysis.
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Amid increasing concerns about occupational stress and emotional exhaustion among higher education faculty, this study investigates the psychosocial and workload-related factors contributing to burnout among lecturers in Ghanaian colleges of education. The study examined the predictive effects of mindfulness, work-life balance, teaching demands, classroom assessment practices, and sleep disturbance on burnout among lecturers in colleges of education in Ghana, with an emphasis on the mediating and moderating roles of supervision load and marking workload. Utilizing a quantitative correlational research design, data were collected from 320 academic staff using a structured online questionnaire and analyzed through multiple regression, moderation-mediation modeling, and latent class analysis. The findings revealed that burnout levels were significantly elevated among lecturers with high teaching and assessment demands, poor sleep quality, and insufficient work-life balance. Mindfulness particularly present-centered and non-judging awareness emerged as a robust protective factor, negatively predicting burnout symptoms such as emotional exhaustion and depersonalization (β = - 0.21, p = 0.002). Conversely, increased teaching hours, student mentorship, and assessment loads significantly predicted higher burnout levels (β = 0.13-0.20, p < 0.01). Sleep disturbance played a mediating role in the pathways between both teaching demands and work-life balance with burnout (κ
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