A study on the relationship between Job DemandControl-Support and Job Burnout of College English Teachers

This paper aims to explore the relationship and effect of job-demand-control-support (JDCS) on job burnout, so as to provide evidence for reducing the occurrence of job burnout. It was a cross-sectional descriptive research design adopted, and 290 College English teachers from 10 universities in China were randomly selected to complete a series of questionnaires. The research tools were the Job Content Questionnaire (Chinese Version), Maslach Burnout InventoryEducators Survey (MBI-ES). SPSS 24.0 software was used for statistical analysis by using Pearson correlation analysis and hierarchical regression analysis. The results of this research were as followings: (1) job burnout, job demand, job control of College English teachers were in the upper middle level, social support was below the average; (2) job demand and job burnout were significantly positive correlated with each other (P$\lt \theta.\theta$ 1), job control had significant negatively correlation with job burnout (P$\lt \theta.\theta$1). there was a remarkable negative correlation between job burnout and social support (P$\lt \theta.\theta$1);(3) JDCS model had 82.1% explanatory power on the variance of job burnout. From the research it is shown that the incidence of job burnout of College English teachers is high. The job stress model of JDCS directly affects the job burnout of College English teachers. Certain job control and some support from superiors, colleagues can effectively reduce job burnout of College English teachers.