To the Issue of Teachers’ Burnout Particularities

Abstract

Problem Statement: Changes in the social and economic area, taking place today in our country, no doubt, are considered the most stressful factors for personality development of the modern man. They give rise to uncertainty, instability, and therefore, are accompanied by tension, anxiety, emotional outbursts, and congestion. Especially vulnerable in this case are teachers – the representatives of one of the most stressful occupations.In this regard, the research of emotional states self-regulations’ particularities of teachers with high and low degree of burnout, is actually.Purpose of Study: In our researching, we have purpose suggesting that the productivity of teacher's activity that determined with the level of teachers’ burnout particularities, mainly is defined by the individual style of mental state's self- regulation, furthermore we investigate the relationship of personal adaptive capacity and susceptibility to the emotional burnout among teachers.Research Methods: The questionnaire named “style of behavior's self-regulation”, developed by V. Morosanova and E.M.Konoz. Research of emotional burnout was conducted using the method (questionnaire) of American psychologists C.Maslach and S.Jackson, adapted by N.E. Vodopyanova. Adaptive skills were diagnosed using a questionnaire by A. Maklakov.Findings: Thus, our statistical analysis of the stylistic particularities of teachers’ self-regulation with different degrees of emotional burnout showed that teachers with a low degree of burnout have formed by an individual system of conscious self- regulation of any activity. They are characterized by awareness and interconnectedness in the overall structure of individual regulation of regulatory units. Stylistic particularities of teachers with a high degree of emotional burnout differ with non formed needs in conscious planning and programming of their behavior, they are more dependent on the situation and the people around them.The correlation analysis confirms the relationship of personal adaptive capacity and susceptibility to burnout. A statistically significant negative relationships among neuro-psychological stability, and such indicators of burnout as emotional exhaustion and reduction of personal achievement, between the communicative capacity and all the components of burnout.Conclusions: Thus, this conducted research allows to suggest the following conclusions: First, the productivity of teacher's activity with determined level of burnout, mainly defined by the individual style of the teacher's mental state self- regulation of, and the second, the conducted correlation analysis confirms the relationship of personal adaptive capacity and susceptibility to the emotional burnout among teachers.