The relationship between hardiness and burnout among the teachers of the universities and higher educational institutes - case study

Abstract

Burnout is the physical, mental and emotional collapse combined with the negative attitudes toward the job and lack of attention to the clients. The most significant signs of burnout include absence from work, successive delays and various psychosomatic complaints and conflict in the workplace. Hardiness is a personal characteristic adjusting the way to cope with the stressful situations. This study examines the relationship between burnout and hardiness of the teachers of a higher education institute. In doing so, there are three factors including emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and lack of personal accomplishment which measure the burnout. Additionally, hardiness has three components of commitment, control and challenge. This survey aims at determining the relationship between the elements through correlation coefficient. The population is composed of all teachers of a higher education institute. The participants were 120 teachers. Given the unknown variance of the population, the variance ratio was equal to p (p-1) to specify the sample. The value of p was equal to q. The error (d) was equal to 0.05 and the sample size composed of 53 persons. After sampling and analyzing the results by the correlation coefficient, it was found that any of the burnout components werecorrelated with the three elements of hardiness.