Research of relationship between emotional intelligence and perceived burnout level: A study on teaching staff

In organizations, there are lots of factors which not only cause people' efficiency to decrease but also increase the cost created by people. Lack of hygiene conditions, organizational unfairness, nepotism, glass ceiling, mobbing and so many other factors like these might lead the individual to the process known as burnout. The burnout syndrome might include so many problems based on its intensity. For example, psychological and physical weakness employees experience, losing inner energy, feeling exhausted, becoming unwilling and careless, growing less interested to job, decrease in personal success and losing job. While this situation can be seen more often in jobs having a high stress level, it affects the individual and his environment so negatively. This work has been prepared based on the theoretically new idea; emotional intelligence, should be considered important factor for burnout. Hypothesis was established based on the fact that there is a direct link between emotional intelligence and burnout. Survey was used to collect data. The survey was carried out with randomly selection method. Data was analyzed through SPSS 23 program. It was found a relation between the sub categories of emotional intelligence including 'emotional appraisal' and 'positive regulation' 'empatic sensivity' and all sub categories of burnout. It was seen a high relation between 'positive utilization', 'empathic sensitivity' and 'personal success' variances. In addition to this, a negative relation was also found as an another finding between 'emotional appraisal', 'positive regulation, 'empathic sensitivity' and ''emotional exhaustion'. Besides certain relations was found between sub dimensions of emotional intelligence with marital status, administrative function, experience and sub dimensions of burnout with gender, marital status, administrative function, staff position problems, age, title and experience. Keywords: Emotional intelligence, burnout syndrome, emotional exhaustion