The Relationship Among Occupational Stress,Self-compassion And Job Burnout Of College Counselors

As the first-line student workers of higher education,counselors should shoulder the tasks of ideological and political education,daily management,employment guidance,mental health and party building.The mental health status of counselors is directly related to the growth and development of students.However,due to the particularity and complexity of their work,the occupational stress and role conflict faced by counselors is clearly more than ordinary professional teachers.Moderate stress is the driving force behind all human progress and efforts.But stress overload(intensity work or long work hours)can damage individual‘s physical and mental health,which can be expressed by psychological disease or problems.A number of studies have shown that occupational stress can be regarded as an important element when predicting the job burnout.As a new perspective of self--view,self-compassion can protect oneself well.Not only can it enhance individuals‘ adaptive capacities to keep their mental health,but also encourage them to be positive to acquire better development.What‘s more,it is found mindfulness training,group training and so on are all beneficial to improve the level of self-compassion through Neff's research.This study attempts to prepare for college counselors occupational stress inventory,in order to more effectively understand occupational stress status of counselors,and the self-compassion will be introduced to the research on the relationship between the occupational stress and job burnout,trying to find the new ways to relieve the occupational stress and job burnout of college counselors.Furthermore,it will be helpful to improve the physical and mental qualities of college counselors,and guarantee the educational work in colleges and universities,striving for the early realization of the goal of "the better the education is,the stronger the country is".This study includes three parts:Part1: Self-making the college counselors occupational stress scale(Preliminary questionaire)makes a survey among 189 counselors.And the official scale forms afterthe project analysis and exploring factors analysis.The survey uses 4 scoring for mulas,including 26 questions,and divides it into 5 dimensions,including the stress fro m vocational development,students,external support,working load and job conflict.The survey has the good reliability and validity,and can be used as a useful tool to learn about the occupation stress of college counselors.Part 2: Adopting college counselors' occupational stress scale,Self-compassion scale and Maslach Burnout Inventory,we had researched 258 college counselors‘ occupational stress,self-compassion level and job burnout.As the research shows,there are significant differences in varying degrees,which are affected by demographic variables,variables,such as gender,age,marital status,working age,monthly income.Part3: Through the correlation analysis and regression analysis on occupational stress,self compassion and job burnout of colleges counselors,we found that: Occupational stress of colleges counselors has remarkably positive forecast function towards job burnout.That is,the higher level of self compassion colleges counselors have,the less job burnout they feel.Nevertheless,the lower level colleges counselors have,the more job burnout they feel.In summary,this study has developed the occupational stress scale for college co unselors through the entry of the preliminary open questionnaire and interview,which provides a measuring tool for the research of college counselors' occupational stress.And it has conducted further investigation through the questionnaire survey on the occ upational stress of college counselors,the actual situation of self-compassion and job burnout,and the impact of self-compassion on occupational stress and job burnout.In practical sense,this study offers new approach and empirical evidence in order to a lleviate the job burnout of college counselors.It can not only be significant to improv e their mental health,but also can be conductive to the growth and development of col lege students.And it is also beneficial to the effective development of university ideol ogical and political work.