Study On The Rural Primary And Secondary School Teachers’Educational Responsibility Professional Identity And Job Burnout Relationship

Education greatly depends on teachers who take the great responsibility of Chinese basic education and have a direct impaction students’future which in return have much to do with a family’s and a country’s bright future. In recent years, along with the development of the Reform and Open Policy and Chinese domestic market economy, some new problems arise like lacking educational responsibility, severe job burnout and lower professional identity in teachers, which have caused the conflicts between teachers and students and the contradiction between teachers and society. These problems exert serious negative influence on teachers’ mental health and daily work. So, to strengthen teachers’educational responsibility and professional identity and to eradicate teachers’job burnout will play an important role on promoting the teachers educating quality. In this paper, the relationships among teachers’ educational responsibility, job burnout and professional identity were discussed through the analysis of the400form of questionnaire in primary and middle schools in Linzhang County. The surveyed teachers come from some remote rural schools and town school, schools from reputation to ordinary ones were sampled. Results are listed as follows:(1) In general, rural teachers have higher teachers’responsibility.Rural teachers’ responsibility is significantly correlated with teacher’s professional age, first record of formal schooling, a head teacher or not, an educational governor or not and marital status.①Teacher’s professional age is positive correlated with teacher’s responsibility.②Teacher’s responsibility is negative correlated with their educational background.③A head teacher is more responsible than the one who is not.④Educational governors are less responsible than teachers.⑤The teachers who are married are more responsible than the ones who are not. But the ones who divorced are the least.(2) Rural teachers’professional identity is in the general level. There are significantly differences in gender, teaching experience, urban and rural, key schools, marital status, wage income and titles. Here are the following concrete results:①In terms of gender, female teachers’professional identity are higher than male teachers’.②The teachers who have different teaching experiences have different level of professional identity. The highest professional identity can be found in below5years of teaching experience while along with the increasing of teaching age, The professional identity is likely to decline.③The level of professional identity of the teachers in urban and key schools is obviously higher than that of the teachers in rural and general schools.④There is significant difference between married teachers and unmarried teachers in professional identity, The single teachers’ is the highest, the divorce ones’ is the lowest.⑤Teachers’ professional identity ranks the highest when their salary is lower in1000yuan RMB while those whose salaries between1001-1500yuan RMB rank the lowest. But with teachers’ salary rising, it goes down first and then goes up.⑥In the terms of professional title, the professional identity of the teachers in primary school is oberviously different with that of the teachers in secondary school, In primary schools, the higer the professional title is, the lower the professional identity is. But in secondary school, with the professional title rising, the professional identity first goes down and then goes up, and then goes down again.(3) At the job burnout, the teachers have obvious differences in age, marriage status nd salary, the others aspect are not obvious. Here are the following concrete results:①As for age, between the age of30to60, teachers below30years old have the lowest job burnout, while teachers at60have the highest.②As for marriage status, from single to marriage, having children and in divorce, those who are married but have no children are the least wearisome, and those who are married and have children are the most job burnout. Those who are single and divorced do not have much difference in job burnout.③Salary is negative correlation with teachers" job burnout. So, Salary is not the key factor that determines teachers’ job burnout. (4) Teachers’responsibility is positive correlation with professional identity, the higher the sense of responsibility, the higher the teachers’career identity.(5) Teachers’responsibility is negative correlation with individual dimensions of teachers’job burnout and positive correlation personal achievement.(6) Teachers’professional identity is negative correlation with individual dimensions of teachers’job burnout and positive correlation personal achievement.(7) The degree of teachers’sense of educational responsibility is affected by their job burnout and professional identity. In some extent, the degree of teachers’sense of educational responsibility can be predicted by the degree of professional identity.