Relationship between job burnout and personality of teachers

ObjectiveTo understand the actual level of job burnout among teachers and its relationship with personality, and to provide an aid for intervention of job burnout problem.MethodsChinese Maslach burnout inventory,Eysenck personality questionnaire and internal-external locus of control scale were examined in 350 teachers.ResultsThe results displayed that the prevalence of casses of slight burnout was 38.6%,the prevalence of cases of moderate burnout was 19.7% and the prevalence of high burnout was 4.3%.Teachers psy choticism was significant predictor of its depersonalizatio n(P<0.01), and its introversion-extroversion was significant predictor of its exhaustion(P<0.05),depersonalization(P<0.01)and reduced personal accomplishment(P<0.01),and neuroticism was sig nificant predictor of its exhaustion(P<0.01),and locus of control was excellent predictor of its exhaustion(P<0.01)and depersonalization(P<0.05).ConclusionMore attention should be paid to the job burnout problem of teachers,taking the personality into consideration.