Frequent change of educational system to meet fast change of time and social requirement asked teachers to make additional efforts to change their attitude or behavior. In addition, increasing maladjustment behaviors of students like school violence w...
Frequent change of educational system to meet fast change of time and social requirement asked teachers to make additional efforts to change their attitude or behavior. In addition, increasing maladjustment behaviors of students like school violence which is recognized to be a recent social issue cause for teachers to be vulnerable to stress. In case teachers are not able to effectively cope with these stressful environment, it will be possible for them to be psychological burnout and that they may make less efforts for their job, or their relations with students might be aggravated, so to finally hinder effectiveness of eduction. The study tried to verify the difference in psychological burnout following to teacher efficacy and job stress coping style based on the relations among psychological burnout, teacher efficacy, and job stress coping style.
Research problems established for the purpose of the study are as below.
First, is there any difference in teacher efficacy, job stress coping style, and psychological burnout following to gender and teaching career of elementary school teachers?
Second, what relations are there among teacher efficacy, job stress coping style, and psychological burnout of elementary school teachers?
Third, how different there is in psychological burnout of elementary school teachers following to their teacher efficacy and job stress coping style?
A survey was conducted for 320 elementary school teachers located in Gyeonggi-do and Incheon and 262 sheets were finally analyzed. Independent sample t-test and one-way ANOVA were operated to find the differences among teacher efficacy, job stress coping style, and psychological burnout following to gender and teaching career of elementary school teachers. Correlation analysis was operated to find the relations among teacher efficacy, job stress coping style, and psychological burnout. And two-way ANOVA was operated to find difference in psychological burnout of elementary school teachers following to their teacher efficacy and job stress coping style.
Summary of the study result is as below.
First, there was no difference between teacher efficacy and job stress coping style following to gender, but female teachers were higher than male teachers in psychological burnout. And the longer teaching career, the higher teacher efficacy. There was no meaningful difference in psychological burnout and job stress coping style following to teaching career.
Second, the result of correlation analysis for teacher efficacy, job stress coping style, and psychological burnout showed that teacher efficacy had positive relationship with challenging and emotion relieving coping style, but negative relationship with psychological burnout. In addition, psychological burnout had negative relationship with challenging coping style, but positive relationship with aversive coping style.
Third, difference in psychological burnout following to teacher efficacy and job stress coping style showed main effect with teacher efficacy and challenging coping style. So it was found that there was a more difference in psychological burnout with higher teacher efficacy and more challenging coping style.
The study is meaningful as it was confirmed that teacher efficacy and challenging coping style was personal variable of teachers affecting psychological burnout through differences in psychological burnout following to teacher efficacy and job stress coping style of elementary school teacher. Therefore, if there are methods to improve teacher efficacy and challenging coping style, psychological burnout of teachers will be positively prevented.