A STUDY ON THE BURNOUT LEVEL OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS.

This study aims to determine the burnout level of the primary school teachers in Elazig in order to analyze the relationship among variables and to figure out solutions for the burnout problem by using Mann Whitney-U and Kruskal Wallis-H tests. The population of this research at descriptive type consists of 2218 teachers who teach at primary schools in Elazig city center. This study reached to 316 teachers with stratified sampling method representing the population. It was observed that the execution forms of the task, marital status, the level of education, and the number of children the teachers have did not affect burnout levels of work time (p>0.05), but gender, work time, professional competence, communication, being appreciated, economic satisfaction, age and occupational level was significant (p<0.05). However, the low grades in emotional exhaustion (EE) and depersonalization (D), and the high grades in terms of personal accomplishment (PA) revealed that the teachers are in burnout at a low level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]