The relationship between the perception of workload and the occupational burnout levels of classroom teachers

The general purpose of the research is to determine the relatioanship level between workload perception and occupational burnout of the classroom teachers working at the primary schools attached to Ministry of Education in Turkey. The relational screening model was used in the research. The target universe of the research is composed of 1475 classroom teachers working in Atakum, Canik and İlkadım districts at the province center of Samsun in the 2017-2018 academic year. The sample of the research consists of 329 teachers in these districts. "Personel Information Form" with the four-items, "Workload Perception Scale for Teachers" with one-dimensional and 11-items which was developed by Keleş Ay (2010) and "Teachers Occupational Burnout Scale" with four-dimensionals and 26-items which was developed by Yellice Yüksel, Kaner and Şekercioğlu (2008) were used for the collection of research data. Percentage and frequency for personel information, aritmetic mean and standard deviation for sub-dimensions, t-test for gender, Mann-Whitney U test for marital status, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) for occupational seniority, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Kruskal Wallis test for age, Tukey HSD test to determine significant difference in sub-dimensions, Pearson Correlation analysis to determine the relationship between workload perception and occupational burnout levels were applied. As a result of the research it has been found that the workload of the teacherc is not anerous and their occupational burnout is low level. At least, the teachers have participated in physical and emotional burnout in the sub-dimensions of occupational burnout and failure and burnout of the profession at most. According to the variables of gender, marital status and occupational seniority, both of the workload perceptions and the occupational burnout of the teachers show a significant difference. The teachers' workload perceptions do not vary according to age. The occupational burnout of the teachers shows a significant difference according to age. According to the rank values, between the 41-50 years old teachers are at the top, between the 27-40 years old teachers are at the second, between the 51-64 years old teachers are at the last in the occupational burnout. The relationship between the workload perception and the occupational burnout is significant, positive and moderate.