Effort-reward Imbalance and Burnout among EFL Teachers in Iran

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Mehdi Haseli Songhori ¹ , Alireza Atashpanjeh ² , Maryam Noori Sadegh ³

1 - Department of English Language, Zahedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran
2 - Department of English Language, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
3 - Department of English Language, Zahedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran

Received: 2021-01-02 Accepted : 2021-05-20 Published : 2021-10-01

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