Investigate condition job burnout of physical education teachers in Ahar city

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Master of Sports Management, University Of Urmia

2 Professor, Department of Sports Management, University of Urmia

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate job burnout of physical education teachers in Aher city. The research was descriptive, cross-sectional. The population of this study included all 52 male and female physical education teachers of Ahar city using census sampling; but, because some questionnaires was not returned and some was incomplete, final sample size is 48. The data collecting tool is Maslach burnout questionnaire (1981), which contains 22 items and three sub-components including emotional tiredness, depersonalization and lack of personal achievements. The face and content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by several sport management professors and its reliability using Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.752. To analyze the results of this study, the KS test, one-sample t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient and independent 1 tests were used. The results showed that physical education teachers of Ahar city have low scores in the components of emotional tiredness meaning that their status of emotional tiredness is in a good condition. But, their scores in the state of depersonalization and lack of personal achievement are high, which means these teachers are at a disadvantage condition.

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