The Related Study On The Occupational Burnout And Mental Health State Of Teachers From Schools For The Deaf

The research data from home and abroad shows that teachingprofession is one of professions which undertake the largest pressure. Ifthe teachers could not effectively control and release the workingpressure, burnout will appear and then psychological health is threatened.Not only the teachers’ own life quality and life happiness will be affectedby their occupational burnout and psychological health state, but also thesound growth of students will be influenced. As an important part of thespecial education teachers, burnout and mental health problems areprevalent among teachers from schools for the deaf because the specialnature of its work. Therefore, it is very significant to reinforcepsychological health education of teachers from schools for the deaf toexplore the occupational burnout and mental health status as well as theirrelationships of teachers from schools for the deaf and analyze the mainfactors which affect their occupational burnout and the level of the mentalhealth.On the basis of the previous research from home and abroad, thisstudy adopted document analysis, questionnaire surveys, interviews andother methods. This paper conducted a questionnaire survey of351teachers from schools for the deaf with Teacher Burnout Questionnaire(MBI-ES) and the Symptom Checklist (SCL-90); the other16deaf teachers were interviewed. Through the data processing, interview datacompilation and statistical analysis, this study explored the occupationalburnout of teachers from school for the deaf, mental health status andtheir influencing relationship for each other, analyzed the differencesbetween the occupational burnout of teachers from schools for the deafand mental health in various factors; finally, this paper proposed somepointed countermeasure to release the teachers from schools for the deafburnout and improve the mental health level. According to the results ofthis study, the author made conclusions as following:(1) The detection rate for psychological problems of teachers fromschools for the deaf is rather higher. Comparing with the national norm,the SCL-90score is significantly higher, especially in the nine factors ofsomatization, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, depression, anxiety,hostility, terror, paranoia and psychosis, etc. The mental health of teachersfrom schools for the deaf varies remarkably for their different gender,professional background and class hours per week. Additionally, it is alsoinfluenced by their marriage status, whether being a director of class andoccupying other position in school, different academic qualifications,different provinces, different pressure levels; different ages, teachingseniorities and teaching titles have no distinctly influences on mentalhealth of teachers from schools for the deaf.(2) The overall occupational burn of the teachers from schools for the deaf is not serious, but they have the high degree of emotionalexhaustion. With the low depersonalization tendency and low degree ofpersonal accomplishment sense,24.5%of teachers from schools for thedeaf are the server sufferers in emotional exhaustion;10%of them areheavy damaged by depersonalization;12.8%of them have low sense ofaccomplishment. The state of occupational burnout of teachers fromschools for the deaf displays remarkably different from whether holdingother position, various class hours per week, teaching seniorities, teachingtitles and academic qualifications, different provinces, different pressurelevels; while these factors such as different gender, professionalbackground, marriage status and whether as a director of class, differentteaching seniorities has no remarkably differences on occupationalburnout of teachers from schools for the deaf.(3) The three dimensions of the occupational burnout of teachersfrom schools for the deaf are positively related to their mental health state.And comparing to other factors, depersonalization and mental healthrelated to the maximum. The three dimensions of the occupationalburnout of teachers from schools for the deaf entered into the regressionequation of mental health，those have positive predictive effect towardmental health, and jointly explained variance is34.8%, which shows thedepersonalization as the most predictive power, with its owninterpretation30.6%.