A Psychological Study of Job Burnout and Job Involvement Among School Teachers of Latehar District

Abstract

Teachers are the second parents of our child. They are considered as the pillar of the society. A teacher must mould student’s attitude into a positive manner to develop a better personality. The present study aimed to assess the level of job burnout and job involvement among secondary school teachers of rural area in Latetar district (Jharkhand state) and find out the interrelationship among job burnout and job involvement. Total sample consisted of 240 subjects (120 male & 120 female rural teachers) were selected from the latehar district. Job burnout scale was developed and standardized by Dr. Zaki Akhtar (2016) and Job involvement scale was developed and standardized by Dr. Zaki Akhtar & Dr. Udham Singh (2014), which administered individually. Stratified random technique was used during data collection. The data was subjected to ‘t’ and correlation analysis and the major findings of the study revealed that the female teachers have significantly higher level of job burnout score as compared to their counterparts (‘t’= 7.58, P<.01). Whereas male teachers have significantly higher level of job involvement score as compare to female teacher (‘t’=11.97, P<.01). Findings reported that job burnout adversely affect the commitment towards job involvement. When person feel chronic stress due to continue work load job burnout occurs which negatively affect on job involvement. Job burnout negatively correlated with job involvement which indicates that when the rate of job burnout increases the level of job involvement gradually decreases. In rural area basically female teachers feel more insecurity (Naxalite attack), lack of transport service, poor accommodation, and unfaithful co-operation which occurs job burnout and low organizational commitment.