RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AND BURNOUT TENDENCIES AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN ANAMBRA STATE
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Pearson Product, Correlation Coefficient, occupational stress, secondary school teachers in Anambra stateRésumé
The study investigated the relationship between occupational stress and burnout tendencies among secondary school teachers in Anambra state. It was guided by five research questions and seven null hypotheses. Correlational survey research design was adopted for the study. A total of 2000 teachers were sampled from the population of 5634 teachers in government owned secondary schools in the state using proportionate stratified random sampling. The instruments that were used for this study include Occupational Stress Inventory for Teachers (OSIT) and Teachers Burnout Inventory (TBI). They were validated and tested for reliability. The data relating to research questions one and two were analysed using aggregate scores, percentages.
Then, Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was adopted for research questions 3 to 5. Also, data relating to the hypotheses 1-3 were tested using a t-test of correlation coefficient. Hypotheses 4 and 5 were tested using a Z-test; while hypotheses 6 and 7 were tested with Analysis of variance (ANOVA). From the analysis, the following findings were made among others: Majority of the teachers experience low or moderate occupational stress. Most of the teachers have low burnout tendency. There is very low or no negative relationship of 0.06 existing between occupational stress and burnout tendency of secondary school teachers in Anambra state. There is low negative relationship of -0.32 existing between the occupational stress and burnout tendency of male secondary school teachers in Anambra state.
There is very low positive relationship of 0.19 existing between the occupational stress and burnout tendency of female 1 secondary school teachers in Anambra state. There is significant very low or no negative relationship existing between occupational stress and burnout tendency of secondary school teachers in Anambra state. Based on the findings recommendations were made.
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