Tükenmişliğin Mesleki Bağlılık Üzerindeki Etkisi: Öğretmenler Üzerinde Bir Alan Araştırması

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate whether teachers' burnout levels have an effect on their professional commitment. While teachers working in public and private education institutions in Ağrı Doğubayazıt constitute the universe of the research, the sample consists of 100 teachers selected by simple randomization among these existing teachers. The data of the research were obtained by applying the questionnaire technique. The “Maslach Burnout Scale” developed by Maslach and Jackson (1981) and Meyer et al. The “Professional Commitment Scale” developed by (1993) was used. In this direction, SPSS package program was used in the analysis of the collected data. Correlation analysis was conducted to reveal the relationship between the burnout levels of teachers in the study and their professional commitment levels, and regression analysis was conducted to reveal the effect of burnout sub-dimensions on professional commitment sub-dimensions. According to the results of the analysis, there was no significant effect of the emotional exhaustion sub-dimension of burnout on the sub-dimensions of professional commitment. Depersonalization, which is another sub-dimension of burnout, was found to have a negative effect on the emotional professional commitment and professional continuance commitment dimensions of professional commitment, while it did not have a significant effect on normative professional commitment.