The study aims to identify how secondary school teachers’ burnout, job satisfaction and resilience are related to one another and to verify the roles of resilience while burnout affects job satisfaction. A survey of 292 secondary school teachers in ...
The study aims to identify how secondary school teachers’ burnout, job satisfaction and resilience are related to one another and to verify the roles of resilience while burnout affects job satisfaction. A survey of 292 secondary school teachers in Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi province was conducted and collected. Except 3 respondents making no or poor answers, a total of 289 respondents’ data went through statistical analyses, and measurement tools used for collecting data were MBI(Maslach Burnout Inventory), KRQ-53(Korean Resilience Quotient Test) and TJSQ(Teacher’s Job Satisfaction Questionnaire).
For analyzing collected data, the frequency analysis was carried out through SPSS 22.0 to analyze the status of demographic variables. Along with SPSS 22.0, the Pearson correlation analysis was conducted to explore the descriptive statistics analysis on major variables and the relations among variables. In a bid to clarify the mediating effect of resilience, AMOS 22.0 was used for implementing the Structural Equation Model, and also, Bootstrapping was performed to verify the significance of mediating effect.
Major findings of the study are summarized as below.
Firstly, burnout showed a significant negative correlation with resilience and job satisfaction respectively, on the other hand, it has no significant correlation with some sub-factors of job satisfaction
Secondly, resilience and job satisfaction indicated a significant static correlation not only with all factors but also with all sub-factors.
Thirdly, when burnout is a path to job satisfaction, the indirect effects of resilience were confirmed to be statistically significant.
This study revealed that the indirect effects of resilience are statistically significant to the relations between burnout and job satisfaction among secondary school teachers. If the teachers experiencing burnout are able to increase resilience, it would contribute to improve their job satisfaction in virtue of resilience when they confront burnout situations in the teaching career. Such research findings will serve as basic data for teachers experiencing burnout to develop student guidance measures in a positive way by exploring themselves and making efforts to improve resilience in the education environment where the necessity for diminishing excessive administrative workload of teachers, professional counsel and teacher’s authority protection system caused by the continual loss of teacher’s authority are desperately required.