Emotional Burnout in the Higher Education Teachers as a Health Risk Factor and a Cause for Leaving the Profession

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Gorbach Natalia Andreyevna Lisnyak Marina Anatolyevna McCaw Tatiana Iurievna

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Lisnyak Marina Anatolyevna
Professor V. F. Voino-Yasenetsky Krasnoyarsk State Medical University, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation

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Introduction: Emotional burnout occurs more often in people employed in altruistic professions, including teaching. Purpose: Carry out research to identify emotional burnout in higher education teachers and its influence on their health. Methods: Psychological, statistical and analytical. With the questionnaire of V. Bojko “Emotional burnout”, 637 people were surveyed, including a group of 60 teachers. Data gathered were processed and analysed using descriptive and analytical statistics. Results: Among teaching staff, the phase of stress was determined in every fourth teacher (26,6 ± 5,7 %). For 8,3 ± 3,5 % of teachers, the phase of stress was already developed, while for 18,3 ± 4,9 % of teachers it was still in development. The symptom “Reduction of professional responsibilities” was identified in half of the teachers (50,0 ± 6,4 %), which is 3,5 times more frequent than for the whole sample (14,4 ± 0,4 %), p < 0,05. The symptom “Expansion of emotion saving” was also more frequently observed in teachers: 31,6 ± 6,0 % and 11,5 ± 0,4 %, p < 0,05 respectively. Particular emphasis should be placed on the symptom “Psychosomatic and psychovegetative disorders”, which was identified in every tenth examinee (13,3 ± 4,3 % in teacher sample and 9,7 ± 0,3 % in total sample, p > 0,05), which can affect their somatic well-being and their work capacity. Conclusion: Emotional burnout should be considered as a health risk factor, especially for higher education teachers, which requires development and implementation of measures to prevent the loss of highly qualified human resources.

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Received: Tue 17, Mar 2020
Accepted: Wed 01, Apr 2020
Published: Mon 20, Apr 2020

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© 2023 Lisnyak Marina Anatolyevna. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.PDR.2020.01.06