Analysis of vocational burnout levels among permanent and contracted physical education teachers working in the district of van

Job/occupational burnout is one of the major problems that most individuals may experience today. Nowadays, Job/occupational burnout is one of the most important issues in all private and public work areas. Today's working environments lead to the development of burnout in many aspects. Burnout, which causes serious problems for employees and organizations; negatively affects working life, individual's material and moral status, family life and social life. One of the occupational groups which most frequently experienced burnout is the teaching, physical education teachers who carry out physical education and sports classes in institutions, the effects of the negative conditions in the institutions they work on the teachers appear as burnout. The aim of this study is to determine the burnout levels of physical education teachers. Sampling space is Van province and the samples taken from Van, İpekyolu, Tusba, Edremit, Gürpınar and Muradiye districts. The population of the study is composed of 121 permanent and contracted physical education teachers (37 female and 84 male). In this study, a questionnaire method consisting of 29 questions, the Maslach burnout questionnaire consisting of 22 questions and demographic information of participants with 7 questions, was applied. SPSS (Statistical Package Program for Social Science) 21.0 software was used for the analysis of the data. When the study results are evaluated with literature results, it is concluded that physical education teachers don't have occupational burnout and their emotional exhaustion is slightly high.