Comparison of level of burnout for teachers working in vocational high schools and Anatolian high schools

The present research is carried out in order to determine whether the level of burnout of teachers working in Vocational and Anatolian High Schools differentiate significantly on the basis of some variables and to set forth the relation between level of burnout for teachers and individual, environmental factors related to organization, students and parents. Evaluation of the negative effects on teachers who are responsible for raising people needed by the Information Society of burnout syndrome which has a negative influence on the efficiency of human resources of societies, determination and prevention of the damage it creates has a critical importance for the sanity of both teachers, the generations they will raise and therefore the sanity of the society. Therefore this study believes it will contribute significantly to the building of our future. The entire study is comprised of three parts. In the first part, the definition, concept and theory of burnout are tackled with all its models; concepts regarding burnout, physical, emotional/cognitive, behavioral symptoms of burnout and its results are covered. In the second part, information pertaining to creation and objectives of Vocational High Schools and Anatolian High Schools are presented. Third part is allocated to research and provides the method of data collection, findings obtained in the research and commentaries, results and suggestions. In the implementation, the questionnaire developed in order to collect data is comprised of three parts. In the first part, 'teacher's personal information form' is available. Burnout levels for teachers are measured through the Maslach Burnout Inventory (Maslach and Jackson, 1981) present in the second part. In the last part of the questionnaire, an authentic scale comprised of 66 questions, 5-point Likert scale is developed in order to determine the factors leading to burnout in teachers and weight of those factors. The universe of the research is comprised of teachers in Vocational and Anatolian High Schools in Ankara Province's Sincan District. Total number of teachers for academic year 2013-2014 is specified as 1385. In the implementation part of the thesis the target was to work with a 95% confidence level and ±5% margin of error. According to this, on the basis of calculations made for situations where the universe is between 1000-2000 people, sample size should not be smaller than 322 together with 95% confidence level and ±5% margin of error (Sencer, 1989: 610). Therefore, sample size of research is defined as 340 persons. Following evaluation of questionnaires implemented in the scope of the research, the ones accommodating missing data are eliminated and number of questionnaires to be included in the research is defined as 336. Questionnaire forms to be used for the analysis of the data are encoded to be inserted into the computer and data are classified in the SPSS 21.0 packaged software. When we look at the data retrieved from Maslach Burnout Inventory it is possible to say that level of burnout for teachers working at Vocational High Schools ( = 2,93) is greater than that of teachers working in Anatolian High Schools ( = 2,75). Other findings obtained at the end of the research are as follows: •It is found that organizational issues, individual factors, education policies, factors related to students, physical factors and factors related to parents increase the level of burnout in teachers, •There are no meaningful differences between burnout levels for female and male teachers, •Age demonstrates a meaningful difference in the burnout levels of teachers, •Marital status does not demonstrate a meaningful difference in the burnout levels of teachers, •Level of income does not demonstrate a meaningful difference in the burnout levels of teachers. The ranking, from the highest to the lowest, regarding factors having an influence on the burnout levels of teachers working in Vocational High Schools are found to be factors associated to organizational issues (β=0,582), factors associated to education policies (β=0,359), individual factors (β=0,237), factors associated to students (β=0,233), factors associated to physical conditions (β=0,215) and factors associated to parents (β=0,166). When we look at the factors influencing burnout levels of teachers working in Anatolian High Schools, are found to be factors associated to organizational issues (β=0,381), factors associated to students (β=0,312), factors associated to education policies (β=0,301), factors associated to physical conditions (β=0,264), individual factors (β=0,221) and factors associated to parents (β=0,209). Key Words : Burnout, Anatolian High Schools, Vocational High Schools, Teacher, Maslach,