Burnout among teachers

Pages: 499-502
Zaki Akhtar (Department of Psychology, Karim City College, Jamshedpur)

The present study is an attempt to find out the level of burnout experienced by the school teachers. The sample of this study was consisted of 320 school teachers working in different schools of Jamshedpur. The sample was based on stratified random sampling technique, the stratification being gender (Male and Female), work experience (High and Low) and nature of school (Government and Private). Maslach and Jackson (1981) was administered on the samples. ANOVA was applied to see the significance of difference among the various comparison groups. The result revealed that teachers of both gender did not differ significantly on their level of burnout. Further the result reveled that both the teachers belonging to government and private school managements differed significantly on their level of burnout. And high experience and low experience schools teachers differed significantly on their experience of burnout. Further the interaction effects are also discussed.