A Study On Teachers' Occupational Stress, Personality Characteristics And Occupational Burnout

Teachers, occupational burnout that is regarded as one of the core subjects of studies on teachers and on stress has interested many psychologists these days. In both internal and external causes perspective, this study investigated the relationship among three factors such as teachers, occupational stress, personality characteristics and occupational burnout according to the large sample questionnaire survey to 378 elementary, intermediate and secondary school teachers. The study analyzed the data with Spss10.0 for Windows by way of descriptive statistics, compare means, correlation analysis and step regression analysis. The results showed that: 1. Teachers currently encountered much occupational stress especially examination stress and workload stress. At the same time, the degree of occupational burnout of teachers was fairly serious. 2. Some demographic variables significantly influenced occupational burnout such as gender, whether the school is important, job experience time, whether he taught in secondary school and why he became a teacher, while other demographic variables had no significant effect on occupational burnout including age, degree, teaching bank, whether he was on duty and which subject he taught. 3. Correlation analysis showed that significant correlation existed among teachers, occupational stress, personality characteristics and occupational burnout. There was significantly positive correlation between burnout and stress of all, personality characteristics of P and N, while there was significantly negative correlation between burnout and personality characteristics of E and L.