Effect of Teachers' Work-Related Burnout on Emotional Empathy at the Higher Education Level

Abstract

Teachers’ burnout is a contributing factor to many teachers leaving the field of education early in their careers and emotional empathy is also related to teachers’ burnout. The factors of emotional empathy are interpersonal emotional empathy and intrapersonal emotional empathy. The objectives of the study were to examine teachers’ work-related burnout and emotional empathy at higher education levels and to investigate the effect of teachers’ work-related burnout on emotional empathy at higher education levels. The research design is based on causal-comparative. The population of the study includes teachers’ of social sciences and humanities from different public and private universities in Lahore. 100 teachers were selected by using a multi-stage sampling method. Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and Toronto Empathy Questionnaire were used to conduct the study. The results show that teachers’ work-related burnout hurts teachers’ emotional empathy.