Relations Between Workload, Work Attitudes and Psychological Variables in Spanish University Professors

This paper analyses materialistic and post materialistic attitudes towards work amongst university faculty and also the relationship between work attitudes and changes in workloads and levels of well being and burnout. The sample of 111 teachers completed questions about changes in workload, a scale of post materialist and materialist attitudes to labour; the MBI-GS to measure burnout, and the MHC-SF to measure hedonic and eudemonic well being. The main results show a prevalence of post- materialistic attitudes and adequate levels of well being and burnout. Workload is only related to eudemonic well-being levels, and the best predictor of burnout and well-being is the postmaterialistic attitude. The results are discussed taking into account the work of university professors in Spain and the theory of work identities.