Özer N.2024-08-042024-08-0420131990-9233https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.mejsr.2013.15.5.11108https://hdl.handle.net/11616/91854This study aimed to determine the school principals' sense of self-efficacy, burnout and the relationship between principal self-efficacy and burnout. The participants of the study comprised a total of 119 (F=7, M=112) primary school principals, attending an in-service training program arranged jointly by Inonu University Faculty of Education and TED Malatya College, during 3-5 May, 2009. Participants' sense of efficacy and burnout were measured by an adapted version of Principal Sense of Efficacy Scale and Friedman School Principal Burnout Scale. Results revealed that principals' views about sense of efficacy differ significantly in terms of professional experience and principals' levels of burnout differ significantly in terms of student population in school. Regression analyses showed that efficacy for management, instructional leadership and moral leadership accounted for approximately 15% of the variance for principal burnout, however, it was efficacy for moral leadership the only significant predictor of professional burnout. ©IDOSI Publications, 2013.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessAccomplishmentDepersonalizationExhaustionSchool principalsSelf-efficacyInvestigation of the primary school principals' sense of self-efficacy and professional burnoutArticle15568269110.5829/idosi.mejsr.2013.15.5.111082-s2.0-84881365785N/A