Introduction. Despite the fact that the modern teacher needs to have certain professional qualities and a high level of professional competence, there is a problem of uncertainty of many factors and their impact on the processes of teachers’ professional development. The influence of a number of factors on the psychological health of teachers, as well as their emotional burnout is of particular interest. However, research devoted to the factors of teachers’ professional self-fulfillment that influence emotional burnout is still insufficient. In this regard, the aim of our research was to find interrelations between professional self-fulfillment and emotional burnout of teachers.
Materials and methods. The link of these factors with emotional burnout of teachers was tested empirically on a sample of N=70, using questionnaires «Diagnostics of professional burnout according to K. Maslach and S. Jackson adapted by N.E. Vodopyanova» and the author’s «Diagnostics of pedagogical self-fulfillment» by S. P. Sviderskaya. Factor analysis (principal components method) and paired correlation analysis (Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficients) were used as data processing methods.
Results. The factors of teachers’ professional self-fulfillment that showed vivid negative correlations with the indicators of emotional burnout were revealed: job satisfaction (r=-0,576, p=0,003), activity, initiative (r=-0,633, p=0,002), belief in professional success (r=-0,538, p=0,010), cooperation with colleagues (r=-0,528, p=0,012), self-education (r=-0,539, p=0,010), desire for self-fulfillment (r=-0,540, p=0,009; r=-0,554, p=0,005). These factors were accepted as prognostically valid in relation to prevention of teachers’ emotional burnout. They were distributed into the following groups of factors: «Teaching skill», «Activity», «Self-development».
Conclusion. The study of interrelations between self-fulfillment indicators and emotional burnout of teachers has proved the importance of in-depth research of professional self-fulfillment. It also confirmed the necessity of self-fulfillment, the purpose of which, among other things, is prevention of teachers’ emotional burnout syndrome.
Keywords: teacher, burnout, professional self-fulfillment, signs of self-fulfillment, factors of self-fulfillment, research activity, mental health of the teacher
For Reference: Sviderskaya, S. P., Shabasheva, E. A., & Ignatovich, Yu. O. (2023). Research on interrelations between mental burnout and factor signs of teachers’ professional self-fulfillment. Perspektivy nauki i obrazovania – Perspectives of Science and Education, 62 (2), 517-535. doi: 10.32744/pse.2023.2.30
Information about the authors:
Svetlana P. Sviderskaya (Russia, Kaliningrad) - Cand. Sci. (Educ.), Kaliningrad Regional “Institute of Education Development”. E-mail: svsvid86@gmail.com. ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1691-1450 Evgenia A. Shabasheva (Russia, Kaliningrad) - Cand. Sci. (Philology), Associate Professor, School of Philology and Cross-Cultural Communication, Institute of Education and Humanities. Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University. E-mail: shabasheva2008@yandex.ru. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9363-8948 Yulia O. Ignatovich (Russia, Kaliningrad) - Senior Lecturer, School of Philology and Cross-Cultural Communication, Institute of Education and Humanities. Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University. E-mail: yuliyaignatovich07@yandex.ru. ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0441-6380
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