The burnout levels of physicial education teachers: Application of Ordu province

This research has been done in order to examine the burnout levels of physical education (P.E.) teachers. 275 PE teachers, who serve in the 2012-2013 academic year at the secondary and high school sunder the Ministery of National Education assigned in Ordu province constitute the research process.In addition, 163 PE teachers assigned in Ordu province who have been contacted by `?random sampling method??constitute the sampling group of the research. In order to collect the data, `?Personal Information Form??and `?Maslach Exhaustion Inventory-Educator Form??have been used.In analyzing the data; the test of independent group for the comparison of two groups in terms of test of normality,one way variant analysis for the comparisons of three or more groups;due to homogeneity of variants,Scheffe and LSD multiple comparison tests of post-hoc tests have been used in order to determine the source variations found meaningful of the one way variant analysis.Whether the data smaller than 15 in size show a normal distribution or not has been investigated by the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test.Significance level is acknowledged as 0.05 in the research. According to the results of the research; it has been concluded that the gender of the PE teachers has no effect on their exhaustion level. ?Individual Achievement??is high at the age group of 40 and over. ?Emotional Exhaustion?? and ?Desensitization? are not affected by the age of the teachers. It has been found out that; the teachers experience ?Emotional Exhaustion? in variant of income adequacy. ?Individual Achievement?? and ?Emotional Exhaustion?? have not been influenced by their exposure to mobbing.On the other hand;the level of desensitization has been at a high rate. KeyWords:Physical education teacher, burnout,mobbing.