The burnout level of the teachers who work in the centre of kilis and the research of the factors effecting them

Exhaustion has been defined as the draining away of energy, power or sources because of increasing demands, getting tired and being unsuccessful and it has been feen as a long term distress reaction. This survey has been realized to study the burnout level of the teachers working at Kilis city centre and the factors affecting them.It concerns the 1198 teachers working in Kilis city centre in 2010-2011 and 1134 teachers have been reached. The results of the research are gathered throughout a direct observation of the teachers situating in the same room and asking them, in the first place, questions which are thought to affect their exhaustions levels, their health, social and demographic aspects, in the second place giving them a questionaire in which there are Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) questions. The analysis of the datums has been made by using a t test and one way variance analysis.41.8% of them are female and 58.2% are male and their avarage age is 35.35±8.62. The burnout levels of the ones belonging to the whole of MBI base components who choose jobs unwillingly, who aren?t satisfied with the working situations and present education system, who haven?t been appreciated by their bosses have been found higher (p<0.05). As their perception of the socioeconomic level goes from low to high and as their perception of their own health sitution goes from bad to good the burnout levels are decreasing (p<0.05). The emotional exhaustion and personal failure points of the teachers who think that they haven?t got the right place in the society are seen higher (P<0.05).To conclude, the emotional exhaustion points of the teachers working in Kilis city centre are found at an avarage level whereas their personal failure points are found lower in this survey. The prevention against the factors increasing their burnout levels and a plan to improve their situation can be thought to realize.Key Words: Teacher, Burnout Level, Maslach Burnout Inventory.