The Structural Model of The Relationship between Motive Incongruence and Job Burnout with an Emphasis on the Mediating Role of Intrinsic Motivation among Teachers Who Graduated from Farhangian University

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of intrinsic motivation in the relationship between motive incongruence and job burnout. This research is a part of applied research in terms of its purpose and a part of descriptive-survey research in terms of its nature. The statistical population of all teachers who graduated from Farhangian University of Kurdistan province, who were selected using Cochran's formula with an unlimited population, consisted of 384 participants. The research instruments included Maslach job burnout questionnaire (1981), Amabil et al.'s (1994) intrinsic motivation questionnaire. In addition, Lawrence and Jordan's (2009) questionnaire was used to measure the level of motive incongruence, which includes explicit and implicit motivation. The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts and the KMO & Bartlet test, and the reliability of the questionnaire was calculated using Cronbach's alpha method for job burnout (0.716), motive incongruence (0.745), and intrinsic motivation (0.731). The results showed that the chi-square ratio to the degree of freedom (X2/df), the significance level (P-Value) and the root mean square (RMSEA) of the conceptual model of the researchwere well fitted and appropriate. In addition, the results indicated that there is a negative relationship between the motive incongruence and intrinsic motivation with the factor loading value (-5.16). Moreover, there was an inverse relationship between intrinsic motivation and job burnout with factor load (-7.13) and a positive and direct relationship between motive incongruence and job burnout with factor load (6.85).