Burnout, General Well-Being, and Resilience Among School Teachers

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to assess burnout, general well-being, and resilience among primary, secondary, and higher secondary school teachers. The study was carried out in Kerala (Kannur, Ernakulam, Thrissur, and Kollam). A total of 180 school teachers working in urban and rural areas were selected for the present study. They were administered Maslach Burnout Inventory, General Well-Being Scale, and Brief Resilience Scale. The data analysis was done through Spearman’s rank correlation and the Kruskal Wallis test. Results revealed that there was a positive correlation between general well-being and personal accomplishment, i.e., one dimension of burnout. General well-being and resilience were also positively correlated. Resilience correlated with the two dimensions of burnout, i.e., emotional exhaustion is negatively correlated and personal accomplishment positively correlated with resilience. It must also be noted that there was a significant difference in personal accomplishment with respect to grade levels of school teachers, and the result also indicates that primary school teachers had higher personal accomplishment. There was also a significant difference in general well-being with respect to grade levels of school teachers. the higher secondary school teachers obtained higher scores.