Pigge and Marso (1997) conducted one of these studies, which examine
the role of teacher attitudes toward different variables, including teaching. In
their longitudinal study, the researchers found that whereas preservice
teachers’ negative attitudes toward teaching accompanied teacher burnout in
their in-service teaching career, their favorable attitudes toward teaching
correlated with their positive classroom behaviors. In addition, their research
indicated that positive attitude toward teaching was related to a more adaptive
transition from being a pre-service to being an in-service teacher (Pigge and
Marso, 1997).