Burnout among school teachers in relation to their psychological well-being

Pages: 375-378
Baljeet Kaur (Research Scholar, Singhania University, Rajasthan)
Agyajit Singh (Ex-Head, Department of Psychology, 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, as well as psychological well-being, (ii) to find the differences on three dimensions of burnout, and psychological well-being between male and female teachers and (iii) to study the relationship between three dimensions of burnout of teachers and their psychological well-being. The hypotheses were that there would be no differences on three dimensions of burnout, and psychological well-being among school teachers on the basis of sex, (ii) there would be a negative relationship between three dimensions of burnout and psychological well beings of the teachers. The sample of the study consisted of 400 school teachers, out of which 200 were male teachers and 200 were female. They were administered two standardized tests. (1) Maslach’ Burnout Inventory (M.B.I., 1986) by Maslach, Jackson and Schwab, (2) P.G.I. General Well-being Inventory by S.K. Verma & Amita Verma. The results of the study were that (1) there were no sex differences on burnout and psychological well-being of the teachers; (2) there was no relationship between burnout of teachers and their psychological wellbeing.