The Effect of Colleague Relationships on the Feeling of Burnout in Teachers

Abstract

The main hypothesis of this study is that the scores of the colleague relations scale affect the sense of burnout on the scale scores. Apart from the main hypothesis, the hypotheses related to the assumption that there are statistically significant differences between the demographic factor levels and burnout perception of the participants were tested. The Colleague Relationship Perception Scale developed by Oranje (2011) to measure the conceptual structure of colleague relationships, and the Maslach Burnout Scale developed by Maslach and Jackson (1981) were used to measure the conceptual structure of burnout. Both scales are Likert type and five-level. The research was conducted among the teachers working in the province of Yalova. The data were collected with the easiest questionnaire method, and the data of 313 of the participants who answered the research were found suitable for statistical analysis. Collected data were analyzed with IBM SPSS 22.0 software program. As a result of the analysis, a significant and negative relationship between colleague relations and burnout was determined and the main hypothesis was confirmed. No statistically significant relationship was found between burnout and the demographic characteristics of the participants, consisting of age levels, marital status, number of children, working seniority, and education level, and H0 hypotheses at secondary level could not be rejected. When the related literature is examined, there is no study dealing with the relationship between colleague relations and the feeling of burnout. It is thought to be unique in terms of the literature regarding this aspect of the research.