Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.2478/aiht-2022-73-3582
Occupational burnout among teachers: is it seasonal?
Nada Marić
orcid.org/0000-0001-7750-0781
; Institute of Occupational Health and Sports Medicine of the Republic of Srpska, Centre Bijeljina, Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Stefan Mandić-Rajčević
orcid.org/0000-0002-4793-1756
; University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health and Health Management and Institute of Social Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia
Nataša Maksimović
; University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Epidemiology, Belgrade, Serbia
Petar Bulat
orcid.org/0000-0002-4311-8960
; University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia 5 Serbian Institute of Occupational Health, Belgrade, Serbia
Abstract
The aim of this cross-sectional study was to compare occupational burnout in two groups of teachers from the district of Bijeljina (Bosnia and Herzegovina) measured with the Serbian version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory survey for workers in human services (MBI-HSS) at the beginning (group 1) and the end of the school year 2018/2019 (group 2) to see if there are seasonal differences. The questionnaire also included standard sociodemographic data and job description (primary and/or secondary school position, length of service, and overtime work). The prevalence of emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation was low in both groups. However, emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation scores significantly shifted to higher values between the beginning and the end of the school year. We also found a statistically significant association between emotional exhaustion and overtime and between depersonalisation and work in a secondary school (p<0.05). These findings invite further research of occupational burnout seasonality in schoolteachers, preferably by following up cohorts which would be controlled for sociodemographic and work-related variables.
Keywords
chronic stress; depersonalisation; educators; emotional exhaustion; primary school; secondary school; work-related problems
Hrčak ID:
283985
URI
Publication date:
29.9.2022.
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