EFL Instructors’ Attitudes Towards Burn-out and Job Satisfaction: TRNC Evidence

Teaching profession can be accepted as one of the stressful occupations since teachers are playing a prominent role at shaping the future of the nations. Furthermore, it could be mentioned that English Foreign Language teachers are experiencing intensive stress when compared to their colleagues from different fields since they should update their knowledge. The fundamental goal of the current study is to explore the main factors which lead to teacher burn-out and job dissatisfaction and create better understanding regarding burn-out and job satisfaction of the EFL teachers who are working at public and private schools in TRNC. The present study was conducted with 203 EFL teachers. Besides of these, the study also aimed to test the significance between socio-demographic variables such as gender, age, academic status, marital status, salary, previous work experience and overall work experience in terms of burn out and job satisfaction and investigate the relationship between burn out and job satisfaction. Maslach Burn out Inventory (MBI) and Minessota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) were implemented to collect the data from the participants. Moreover, the study employed mean analysis, parametric and non-parametric analysis and lastly Pearson Momentum Correlation Coefficient analysis to reveal the findings. The results showed that no statistical difference was occurred on gender on the basis of burn-out and job satisfaction whereas status, age, academic status (level of education), marital status, previous work experience and lastly overall work experiences were found to be statistically significant in terms of burn-out and job satisfaction. The study also revealed that emotional exhaustion and depersonalization are inversely linked with job satisfaction whereas personal accomplishment and job satisfaction have proportional relationship. Keywords: English Language, EFL teachers, TRNC, Burn-Out, Job Satisfaction, Pearson Momentum Correlation Coefficient