A Study On The Relationship Between Job Burnout And Self-worth In Chinese Teachers

The career entry stage is the key period for the professional development of new mandarin tutors in secondary schools. During this stage, the self - esteem occurred within the 'newborn' teachers spiritual experience is the key intrinsic spiritual power for their corresponding professional development. Even if the teachers empowered themselves with good teaching knowledge and skills, in the situation without good sense of self - esteem, they cannot grow into elites with sustainable development.Therefore, the promotion of self-esteem value before and after the teachers began their work will help them away from the psychological barriers of teachers' burn out.To ensure they began their career with healthy and active attitude is the fundamental factor to boost their career.Firstly, the essay discussed the relationship between professional development and teachers' burn out for the new mandarin tutors in secondary schools, with further explains the internal and external reasons leading to the burnout. This paper analyzed the characteristics of self-esteem of the target group, points out that self-esteem is the factor that affects the professional development of target group and potential burnout.Secondly , the Maslach Teacher's Job Burnout scale (MBI - ES) was used to measure the job burnout of target group. The questionnaire has been modified based on the version of self- worth of primary and secondary school teachers by Professor Wang J.S. Based on the one hundred and four questionnaires filled by the interviewees, the certain correlation between self-esteem and job burnout can be seen easily.Lastly, according to the problems shown in the survey results, we propose a strategy to promote the good self-esteem of the new mandarin tutors in secondary schools from pre-employment stage to the entry stage, which pre-employment is mainly to attach importance of professional development to the target group. While for the entry stage ones is to help them notice the difficulties in practice and correct them on time. A positive evaluation can be used for the above two stages too.