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Aims. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine whether four types of job crafting behaviour (increasing social job resources, increasing structural job resources, increasing challenging job demands and decreasing hindering job demands) were associated with work engagement and burnout among Finnish principals. Based on the Job Demands−Resources model and previous empirical studies in job crafting it was hypothesised that increasing social and structural job resources and increasing challenging job demands would be positively associated with work engagement and negatively associated with burnout. It was also hypothesised that decreasing hindering job demands would be negatively associated with work engagement and positively associated with burnout. Methods. Research data was gathered as a part of a wider international Principal Health and Wellbeing -research project. The data was collected by sending a questionnaire to all 1 200 members of the Finnish Principals’ Association. Altogether 564 principals completed the questionnaire. The participants filled in the questionnaire on their job crafting behaviour, work engagement and burnout symptoms. The data was analysed using regression analysis. Results and conclusion. The results of the regression analyses showed that increasing structural job resources and increasing challenging job demands were positively associated with work engagement. The results also showed that decreasing hindering job demands were positively associated with burnout and increasing social job resources were negatively associated with burnout. However, a closer look at the three different dimensions of burnout showed that job crafting behaviour didn’t correlated with the exhaustion, the core component of burnout. However, increasing structural job resources were negatively associated with cynicism and increasing social job resources were negatively associated with both cynicism and feelings of inadequacy. Decreasing hindering job demands were positively associated with both cynicism and feelings of inadequacy. Job crafting dimensions accounted for 19 % of the variance in work engagement and 4,4 % of the variance in burnout. By crafting their jobs, principals have the opportunity to influence their own well-being at work.