make a substantial contribution to the following statement: Paradoxically, at least in the US, teachers are among the professionals who enjoy the most holidays and longest paid vacation periods throughout the year, yet none of this prevents who suffer from teacher malaise. And it is that the causes are many for this: in the first place there is the gradual loss of social prestige that the profession has been suffering, even though the importance of the teacher is proclaimed in the speeches; the state of defenselessness suffered by teachers in front of parents, students and principals; the low salary, the overload of bureaucratic tasks that limit the time of self-repair and dedication to teaching itself; And, especially, the pretense of solving at any cost, from the school and through the teacher, problems that go far beyond their framework of influence and their real possibilities to solve them. All these problems gradually demotivate the teacher and, if we add to this the daily problems that any person in their life faces, we have an explosive mixture that can explode at the least expected moment, because, as Navas et al (1996 ) both the teacher's personality, as well as his personal goals, abilities, balance, self-image and expectations are personal variables that determine his dissatisfaction or satisfaction to a greater or lesser degree.