The Status Of The Jiangsu Province High School Physical Education Teacher Burnout And Its Influencing Factors,

The notion of job burnout was advocated by Freudenberger in 1974. The research of job burnout has much comprehensive production in the departed 30 years by the experts and scholars from home and abroad. And the study of this field is emphasized by researchers and it even extends to the field of teaching. Teachers work under the great pressure of their job. Many people pay great attention to teachers' burnout because burnout is common to teachers. Job burnout has been becoming the focus of international society gradually. In recent years, some researchers also put the theory of job burnout into many concrete subjects in the middle school. That is to say, more and more researchers begin to notice the differences of the job burnout among the teachers who teach different subjects.The high school PE teachers in Jiangsu province were regarded as the object of our study. We use Maslach Burnout Inventory, an internationally recognized and used job burnout questionnaire, in the investigation. More than 500 high school PE teachers were invested in this survey, and SPSS14.0 was applied to analyze the data. There are significant different development levels of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and efficiency dimensions among demographic statistics variables, such as: different genders, different teaching ages and different schools they are belonged to. The results are as follows: job burnout is prevalent in high school PE teachers in Jiangsu province. The teachers' job burnout is not quite serious on the whole. The job burnout of female PE teachers is more serious than that of male PE teachers, but shows in different characteristics. The teachers who work in the rural high schools receive higher burnout score than those in the city schools. The rank, school age brought significant effect to teachers'burnout. The type of the school and the nature of the school affect teachers'burnout.Base on the first questionnaire, we formatted the teachers'burnout effective factors inventory to find out the deep-rooted factors that cause job burnout. It all proceeded from reality and the questions are all screened strictly. The results are as follows: We found that many factors could generate burnout and they had different effect to the three respects of burnout. The social factors, human relation factors and occupation factors brought effect to emotional exhaustion, while the school factors and occupation factors bought significant effect to teachers'reduced personal accomplishment. Social factors, school factors, human relation factors and occupation factors brought effect to depersonalization.The last part of the text is the countermeasures and suggestions to cope with PE teachers'burnout in high schools in Jiangsu province. The strategy to solve the problem should be multi-level and multidimensional including social factors, school factors, occupation factors, human relation factors, and personal factors.