A study of the relashionship between personality stress characteristics with primary teachers’ occupational burnout in Tabriz

• Main Authors: Hossain lotfinia, Hossain mohseninia
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch 2010-11-01
• Series: آموزش و ارزشیابی
• Subjects: occupational burnout; primary teachers; personality characteristics
• Online Access: http://jinev.iaut.ac.ir/article_521732_44fbaca5d9ce95e2e22f22f1f5637ea1.pdf

The occupational burnout has been one of the main causes of  mental and physical symptoms of working labor force, especially in human services occupations, such as (teaching, nursing), it is also  effective in reduction of their efficiency. Considering the key role of education in training the children, and the teachers’ important role in this regard, the present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between  personality stress characteristics with primary teachers’ occupational burnout. The method of the research is descriptive-correlation. The sample size included 325 people (231 female and 83 male). In order to collect the data two questionnaires namely, short form NEO-FFI personality and Mazlak’s occupational burnout test werw used, and Holmez & Rahe’s life events table was also used. Spearman correlation coefficient and concurrent multiple regression were used to analyse the data and test the hypotheses. The result showed that the conscientiousness factors have the highest influence on the occupational burnout.