Relationship Between School Administrators’ Anxiety Levels for Authority Use and Burnout Levels

Tugba Hosgorur

doi:10.12973/edupij.2013.212.2

Abstract

This study aims to determine the relationship between school administrators’ anxiety levels on authority use, and their burnout levels. Designed using the correlational survey model, participants of this study are 273 primary, middle and secondary school administrators in the province of Mugla, in Turkey. Data was collected using Scale on School Administrators’ Anxiety on Authority Use, and the Burnout Scale. Data was analysed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Kruskal Wallis H test, and multiple regression analysis. The findings indicate that school administrators’ anxiety level for authority use at medium for personnel affairs dimension, and at low for educational affairs, disciplinary and order, and management dimensions.

Highlights

School administrators are individuals with primary responsibility for management and effective use of human and material resources in order to realise the objectives of a school
Findings obtained from data analysis show that, among all dimensions of anxiety for authority use, schools administrators experience anxiety mostly for personnel affairs dimension (M=1.51, SD=.91)
This study aimed to reveal the relationship between school administrators’ anxiety for authority use and school administrators’ burnout

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Introduction

School administrators are individuals with primary responsibility for management and effective use of human and material resources in order to realise the objectives of a school. Globalisation, changes in social structure and economy, dynamics of school structures, developments in students’ academic achievement, and stakeholders’ high expectations from school administrators cause tasks to become more complicated and increased the burden of school administrators’ roles (Celikten, 2004; Gunduz & Balyer, 2013). Such factors may result in anxiety experienced by some school administrators in using their authority when performing certain tasks. This anxiety may bring a feeling of burnout that is sometimes defined as a syndrome of this age (Maslach, Schaufeli, & Leiter, 2001, 398)

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