Burnout of early childhood education teachers in Turkey
Abstract
The purpose of the study is to examine burnout experienced by Turkish early childhood education teachers working in public preschools serving children from three to six years. The participants of the study, 869 early childhood education teachers, were gathered through simple random sampling. The data for the study were gathered through Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) which was developed by Maslach and Jackson (1981) and adapted into Turkish by Ergin (1992) was used for the study. Based on independent samples t-test and analysis of variance the burnout experienced by the teachers examined according to various personal and professional factors such as gender, marital status, monthly income, educational level, years of experience in occupation, and age group of children. Findings suggest that teachers' burnout was related with such such factors as geographical region, gender, monthly income, educational level and background, job position, current work experience and marital status of teachers.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Health Care Administration
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Ozcan Doğan
0000-0002-8913-5934
Türkiye
Publication Date
October 16, 2018
Submission Date
August 29, 2018
Acceptance Date
September 28, 2018
Published in Issue
Year 2019 Volume: 7 Number: 1