Teachers' Job Burnout And Its Influencing Factors

In recent years, occupational ennui has been growing to be a hotspot of explorations on educational administration/management. Undoubtedly, teachers, the highly concentrated crowds more likely to be contaminated with this particular symptom, are now inviting more social concern. This research aims to gain an insight into the actuality and traits of occupational ennui existing and breaking out in high school teachers and thus to probe into the direct working of teachers' self-worth and social back-ups on itApproaches adopted: holistic group sampling. Selecting 720 high school teachers, among which males account for 226 while females 494, introducing "MBI", a questionnaire chiefly by Malslach, "Table of Assessments On Ratio of Social Supports" by Xiao Shui Yuan and "SES", which was originally worked out by Rosenberg and later translated into Chinese and emended by Ji Yi Fu and Yu Xin(1993), handing out 800 questionnaires, and based on the effective 720 questionnaires(90% of the total) taken back, finally construing the effect of teachers' self-worth and social back-ups on the birth and development of occupational ennui. Results indicated:There is still a relatively big percentage of teachers (35%) tainted with a severity of it in high school teachers. The growing age contributes to the development of this symptom, especially embodied in those in midlife more prominently dropping into this tendency;The growth of occupational ennui in high school teachers, with their school age gained, takes the evolving trend of it "occurring lightly in those at the two ends of age whereas intensely in the middle-aged", and those with 16-20 years of teaching are proved to be most gravely affected by it;Gender, educational backgrounds, technical titles, being a class master and the type of one's school prominently exert influence on degrees of occupational ennui in multi-dimensionalities while what grades of students teachers are in charge of do not;Teachers' self-worth is of a comparatively high level. The average score of high school teachers' self-worth is 19.96 points, displaying no distinct distance away from the mid value, which illustrates that the majority of teachers' self-worth stays in the middle level;As far as social back-ups are concerned, the multitude of teachers enjoy a good favor. Thosewho are hit by the bull points in the middle demarcation line take up the overwhelming majority and the farther they are departing from the mid value in winning social supports , the fewer they number in;Levels of teachers' self-worth and occupational ennui positively correlate with each other : the higher level their self-worth amounts to, the more severe their occupational ennui tend to be. Social supports and occupational ennui negatively correlate with each other : The higher level of social supports they obtain the less occupational ennui they suffer. Teachers' self-worth and social supports interact with each other in visible measures. Social supports play a role of buffer between teachers' self-worth and occupational ennui: they may ease off the negative effects brought by teachers' self-worth and alleviate degrees of occupational ennui.To take more feasible precautions against the birth of occupational ennui and to ameliorate the possible worsening of it if it occurs, it becomes an obligation and to take down-to-earth measures to reinforce themselves and to unite all forces of our society, educational institutions /schools and teaching individuals into one , to assist our teachers to be provided with more and higher social supports and help them to maintain a comparatively high level of self-worth , which will be conducive to the individuals adjusting and becoming master of their demeanors and frame of mind /mood and thus cutting down on their mentally negative liabilities , thereby to elevate the level of their mental health ,to lighten their occupational ennui and to encourage them to proffer positive devotions to bringing up more talents meeting the needs of our country.