Burnout among elementary school teachers in context to sex and location of their schools

Pages: 47-51
Baljeet Kaur (Research Scholar, Singhania University, Pacheri Bari, Jhunjhnu)
Agyajit Singh (Department of Psychology (Retired), Punjabi University, Patiala)

The present study aims to (i) to measure three dimensions of burnout i.e.; emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and lack of personal accomplishment of the elementary school teachers and (ii) to find the differences on three dimensions of burnout between male and female teachers, as well as teachers of urban and rural schools. The hypothesis was that there would be no significant differences on three dimensions of burnout among school teachers on the basis of sex, and location of the schools. The sample of the study consisted of 400 school teachers, out of which 200 were male teachers and 200 were females. The sample was divided into two groups on the basis of location of schools i.e. urban and rural school. They were administered the standardized test of Maslach’ Burnout Inventory (M.B.I., 1986) by Maslach, Jackson and Schwab. The results of the study show that there were no sex differences on burnout of the teachers; though the rural male and female teachers differed on burnout. But rural and urban school teachers differed on all dimensions of burnout whether they were males or females or combined group and urban school teachers were more burned out.