Journal of Greater Khorasan

Journal of Greater Khorasan

Factors affecting job burnout among teachers in Kabul

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Naseer ahmad Afzali 1
sohaillah fazelfaizi 2
Fawzia Yousufi 3
bootol honarmandi 4
1 Assistant professor at Kabul University of Educational
2 Professor at Educational and Training University of Kabul
3 Assistant professor of history department, Kabul Education University, Kabul, Afghanistan
4 Master of Sociology, Azad University, Gonabad branch
10.22034/jgk.2024.397945.1120
Abstract
The main goal of the current research is to measure job burnout and factors affecting it among teachers in Kabul. This research was applied in terms of its purpose and results, which was carried out with a survey method and a descriptive-explanatory approach. The statistical population of the study was the teachers of Kabul city, for which 384 of them were given Maslach Burnout Inventory and researcher-made questionnaires with the three-stage cluster sampling method. The findings showed that the job burnout score of these teachers is higher than the average, and background variables such as age, years of service, education level, housing status had a significant relationship with job burnout, but family background and marital status did not show a significant difference with job burnout. Another part of the results also showed that organizational trust, organizational optimism and social dignity of these teachers had a negative and significant relationship with their job burnout, but the perception of inequality in the work environment had a positive and significant relationship with job burnout. The results of the regression test also showed that the main variables explain about 34% of the changes in the job burnout range of these teachers. The general conclusion of the current research is that teachers in Kabul are in a state of job burnout and it is necessary to pay attention to this group of society in order to improve the education situation.
Keywords
teacher burnout
inequality. organizational optimism
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trust
social dignity
Kabul city

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  • Receive Date 19 May 2023
  • Revise Date 15 April 2024
  • Accept Date 30 May 2024