Sociology Of Teacher Burnout Research

In the face of increasingly fierce competition in modern society and enormous social pressure, the possibility of the presence of job burnout in our country has greatly increased.The concept of burnout was first used by a clinical psychologist in the United States,whose name is Freudenberger.The word was first used to refer to negative physical and psychological situation caused by long-term emotional and interpersonal tense of the staff in the service industry who work for excessively long hours and have too much stress.In the foreign country,the research of teachers' burnout is from two perspectives:the psychology and sociology perspectives.Their assumption is that the teachers' burnout is caused by the excessive stress of the teachers' role as the educator.The first scale relating to occupational burnout is the Maslach Burnout Inventory(MBI) made in 1981,the scale was mainly be divided into three psychological dimensions:fatigue,lack of personality and a sense of achievement,depersonalization.In addition,the burnout is divided into five stages of development by Cedoling such as physical,mental,social,psychological emotional and spiritual. Psychologists hold that there are three main factors may lead to burnout:the people of neuroticistic and introvert,the people who are gentle and have the ideas of democracy,A-type personality and the people who are external control.Sociologists believe that teachers' burnout is mainly because of the contrast between expectations and reality,and a variety of sociological factors.In relation to teachers' burnout of foreign study,home study is a young field of research which is not perfect in many aspects.Reference to the definition of the concept of teachers' burnout and to the teaching the study and classification of teachers' burnout,the researchers think teachers' burnout is an extreme psychological reaction when they can't successfully deal with the stress from work.At the time, it is the failure status of feelings,attitudes and behavior caused by the lack of sufficient buffer resources in education and a high level of long-term under the pressure of the job.Teachers' burnout is more and more serious at this stage.Teachers' burnout has resulted in enormous harm in their own psychological and physical health,the quality of teaching in schools, as well as the physical and mental health of students and the right of education.Teachers' burnout in our country is mainly caused by social reasons as work pressure of teachers,limitations of the autonomy on school teachers,the interpersonal tensions as well as lack of resources which are supported by school for teachers.And helping teachers get rid of burnout,we must respect teachers and meet the reasonable demands of teachers,and also help teachers establish harmonious interpersonal relationships.Schools must supply adequate support resources for teachers,respect the autonomy of teachers,and set up a flexible evaluation system for teachers.