The purpose of this thesis lies in verifying the impacts on the social support and burnout which special education teachers experience. For this survey, 224special education teachers in both primary and middle schools in Seoul participated in answerin...
The purpose of this thesis lies in verifying the impacts on the social support and burnout which special education teachers experience. For this survey, 224special education teachers in both primary and middle schools in Seoul participated in answering the questionnaires. The data analysis was conducted through a t-test , one-way ANOVA, Pearson's product moment correlation analysis, simple regression analysis, and multiple regression analysis using a SPSS ver. 15. 0 program. The findings of the study on the basis of the above study process and data analysis are as follows: First, in the category of gender of the personal characteristics of the special education teachers, emotional exhaustion, among other sub-factors of burnout , showed significant differences, while, in the category of age, among the sub-factors, emotional exhaustion as well as personal achievement showed statistically significant differences. Among the sub-factors of the social support, the support from the higher ranking supervisors showed important differences. In the category of career of the personal characteristics, emotional exhaustion, the sub-factor, showed significant difference. Then came the depersonalization and deprivation of personal achievement in order.
Second, the findings from performing duties of the special education teachers and from the social support show that the relation between performing duties and social support is normally positive, whereas emotional burnout and depersonalization, while carrying out their duties, show apposite correlation. The same is true in social support but the deprivation of personal achievement shows static correlation. Third, judging from the findings of special education teachers' performing duties it would be possible for me to estimate a dispersion, I. e, when they faithfully perform their duties, they are positively recognized by their higher ranking supervisors, their colleagues and their family members. In addition, they can be provided with more supports. In reversed cases, according to the study, they can experience much more burnout.The above study indicates that the special education teacher' performing their duties is in the positive correlation with the social supports, whereas the correlation among the job performances and emotional exhaustion and depersonalization which are the sub-factors of burnout is inapposite. The above study also shows that when social supports are given to improve the job performance of the special education teachers, the supports from the higher ranking supervisors are more effective than those from their co-workers and their family members.In conclusion, it can be inferable from the above findings that the higher ranking school administrators' supports have an important significance in easing the burnout of the special education teachers, therefore, for the prevention of special education teacher' s burnout, the social system on the level of school body centered around the school administrators should be established and it's activation is urgently demanded. As a prerequisite for it, active supports from the school administrators are indispensable.