LEVEL OF OCCUPATIONAL BURNOUT, PERCEIVED STRESS AND LIFE SATISFACTION AMONGST UNIVERSITY TEACHERS

Abstract

The aim of the research was to determine the level of professional burnout amongst academic teachers and to demonstrate its relationships with perceived stress and the sense of life satisfaction, as well as selected socio-demographic variables - such as age, gender, marital status and work experience; the title or degree held was an important element of the above analysis.The study included 67 persons (researchers and didactic employees) of one of the faculties at the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University. Employed were the authors' self-designed socio-demographic questionnaire, Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services (MBI-HSS), Perceived Stress Scale test (PSS-10) and Satisfaction with Life Scale test (SWLS). As a result of the research conducted, it was found that almost two-thirds of the surveyed research and teaching employees had a high level of having lost a sense of personal accomplishment, and not more than one-third also the same in the case of the other two dimensions of professional burnout according to MBI. A significant relationship was found between the self-reported burnout score and the level of the three dimensions of burnout according to the MBI.It was found that the higher the score on the PSS-10, the higher the level of all three dimensions of professional burnout according to MBI in the surveyed research and teaching staff. It was shown that the higher the score on the SWLS, the lower the level of all three dimensions of professional burnout according to MBI in the surveyed research and teaching staff. Almost two-thirds (62.69%) of the surveyed research and teaching staff had a high level of having lost a sense of personal accomplishment, and no more than one in three of the respondents in the case of the other two dimensions of occupational burnout according to the MBI.It might be concluded that the researchers have a significant percentage of professional burnout. A significant relationship was found between the self-reported burnout score and the level of the three dimensions of burnout according to the MBI among the research and teaching staff surveyed. We also confirmed the relationship between perceived stress and life satisfaction with all three dimensions of job burnout.