A research to determine the levels of academics' life satisfaction job satisfaction and professional burnout

The aim of this research is to determine the correlation between life satisfaction, job satisfaction and professional burnout levels of Uşak University Academics and vary significantly according to variables of gender, age, marital status, spouse?s work status, income, academic title, seniority, academic unit, hours per week, the level of participation in social life and want to change jobs or not.The total of 170 academics who worked between 2008-2009 years at Uşak University form the sampling unit for the research. Three different scale ; Maslach Burnout Inventory, Life Satisfaction, Job Satisfaction and Personal Information Form held by the investigator were used to collect data for the research. In the analysis, descriptive statistical techniques, Reliability Analysis, Factor Analysis, Independent Samples t-Test, Multiple Regression Analysis, Pearson Correlation Analysis, Scheffe Multiple Comparison Analysis and One-Way ANOVA were used.There is correlation between life satisfaction, job satisfaction and professional burnout. While life and job satisfaction are in positive correlation, there is negative correlation between life/job satisfaction and professional burnout. There is negative correlation between the factors of professional burnout as emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, personal failure and life/job satisfaction. It is observed that academics? life satisfaction, job satisfaction, professional burnout and factors of professional burnout are not varied with the variables of gender, age, marital status, academic title, seniority, income, and hours of per week. Depersonalization levels of academics, whose spouse?s not working, are obtained higher than those of whose spouse is working. The level of personal failure and the level of total professional burnout of academics working in institute are obtained higher than those working in faculty and college. As the level of participation in social life of academics increases emotional exhaustion level decreases. Emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, personal failure and total burnout levels of academics who want to change their jobs are higher than those of academics who don?t want. Job and life satisfaction levels of academics who want to change their jobs are obtained lower than those who don?t want.