DETERMINANTS OF THE PROFESSIONAL BURNOUT SYNDROME OF PEDAGOGUES IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH ASPECT

• Main Authors: A. I. Petrusenko, S. D. Alekseenko
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dnipropetrovsk Oles Honchar National University 2013-02-01
• Series: Vìsnik Dnìpropetrovsʹkogo Unìversitetu: Serìâ Psihologìâ
• Subjects: професійне вигорання; професійна деформація; емоційне вигорання; педагог; психологічне здоров’я; психологічне благополуччя; адаптивний потенціал.
• Online Access: http://psyresearch.dp.ua/index.php/psy/article/view/72

The aim of this paper was to analyze the relationship of the professional burnout syndrome of pedagogues and the psychological well-being of the professionals as well as their personality  adaptive  resources.  The  empirical  study  was  carried  out  using  the  following  inventories: “Maslach  Burnout  Inventory”  (Maslach-Jackson)  adapted  by  Vodopianova;  “Questionnaire Emotional Burnout” (V. V. Boiko); multilevel personal questionnaire “Adaptation-MLOAM” (A. G. Maklakov and S. V. Chermjanin); “Psychological Well-Being Scales” (Caroll D. Ryff). Mathematical processing of the empirical data was done with help of SPSS v.13.0 program for Windows. The experimental investigation carried out on a sample of 40 pedagogues has shown that statistically signi?cant negative correlations exist between the level of professional burnout and the adaptive personality potential measures as well as between professional burnout level and the level of psychological well-being of the pedagogues. Although the correlational data obtained in this research do not allow to de?ne the personality determinants of the pedagogues’ burn out, they suggest several hypotheses for further research. The ?rst one is about the sense of the correlation between the adaptive potential of the personality and the level of burnout: one can expect that a low level of adaptive potential can be one of the determinants of burnout. The second hypothesis is that one can expect that the low level psychological well-being can cause teachers’ burnout. The last hypotheses can be explicated by mentioning that psychological well-being includes several scales: the ?rst of them is the scale of self-acceptance – the level of self-acceptance might possibly be a determinant of burnout as well as any other psychological well-being scales. The second scale is ability to mountain good relationships with other people. So the results of the research con?rm a general line of research ?ndings in the ?eld of studying the role of personality factors of the pedagogues burnout and have good new prospects for further research.