Examination of job satisfaction and occupational burnout levels of physical education teachers

The aim of this study is; to examine the levels of job satisfaction and burnout of physical education teachers who are working in the central districts of Van province and to determine whether there is a relationship between job satisfaction and burnout concepts. For this purpose, in the 2017-2018 academic year, 228 physical education teachers working in the central districts of Van were applied a scale. This study was carried out by quantitative method, also Screening and relational scanning model were used in this study. Demographic data form including personal information, Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale, Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) were collected. SPSS 22.0 program was used to evaluate the data which was obtained from the research. Before the analysis of the data, normality analysis was performed and it was determined that the data showed normal distribution. Therefore, in order to determine whether there is a significant difference between the groups in the evaluation of the data, t-test was used for independent variables in comparison of variables in binary groups, and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) in items in which multiple variables were questioned, correlation analysis was used to determine the relationship between job satisfaction and burnout levels. According to the data obtained as a result of the research; It was found that physical education teachers were generally undecided about their job satisfaction perceptions and rarely experienced traces of professional burnout. A high reverse correlation was found between job satisfaction and burnout; It was interpreted that burnout decreased as job satisfaction increased.