This study aims to analyze the relation between job stress and burnout as the cause variables; such as the distinction of the gender of the teacher, age, special education teaching experience, the number of students, and knowing about the differences ...
This study aims to analyze the relation between job stress and burnout as the cause variables; such as the distinction of the gender of the teacher, age, special education teaching experience, the number of students, and knowing about the differences between job stress and burnout, we attempted to discover its remedy.
The subjects of this study were 122 teachers from special education schools working with physically disabled children, located in Taegu, KyungNam and KwangJu in Korea. As for the instrument of the study, we used The Stress Profile for Teachers(C. Wilson, 1987) and The Maslach Burnout Inventory (lwaniki & Anderson, 1984).
The data was analyzed with mean value, standard deviation and ANOVA, T-test, multiple regression analysis using SPSS/PC^+ were applied.
The major conclusions of this study were as follows:
First, job stress of teachers who work at the special school for the physically disabled children was influenced by treatment, teachers' given condition of work and over-work among others. And teachers in their twenties experienced the highest stress, especially female teachers and teachers who take care of many students were higher than other groups.
Second, burnout of teachers who work at the special school for the physically disabled children was that males experienced it more than females, over-40's experienced burnout in loss of personal accomplishment, and teachers in their twenties experienced the higher burnout in relation to emotional exhaustion. Also, teachers who take care of over 11 students has a higher burnout figure in the area of the student numbers.
Finally, the correlation between job stress and burnout of teachers who work at the special school for the physically disabled children has shown that emotional exhaustion and depersonalization related with every subjection of job stress and burnout, especially, the relationship of co-workers was the highest.
The following suggestions were derived from results of this study:
First, the school administration should pay attention to teachers' job stress and burnout, analyze the causes and make efforts to reduce them.
Second, teachers should have power and work in an open and fair organizational environment. In many ways, a good channel of communication and good human relationships are also important for reducing job stress and burnout among teachers.
And, it is desirable to discover the program to solve stress and burnout. Also, it is desirable to develop the educative and collaborative program with another school in a condition of open-mindedness.