Comprehensive schoolteachers at risk of early exit from work

Risk of early exit from work for teachers was operationalized as high burno ut scores, working part-time due to heavy burden and illness or working par t-time while also receiving partial disability pension. Data were collected by mailed questionnaires in a cross-sectional study to a random sample of Norwegian comprehensive schoolteachers, response I ale = 86% (N = 1860 vali d cases). High age increased the risk of early exit fr om work, but for cyn icism the age effect disappeared when sense of competence and str ess were introduced in the regression model. Age had no effect for low professional efficacy. Sense of competence effected burnout, but actual competence level and the gap between actual competence and teaching obligations did not. St r ess effected all measures of risk of early exit, especially exhaustion. C hange as str ess factor increased the exhaustion scores, and were also rele vant to risk of having a part-time position, and/or partial disability pens ion.