The Peculiarities of Relationships between Values and Professional Burnout of Pre-School Teachers
The Peculiarities of Relationships between Values and Professional Burnout of Pre-School Teachers

Author(s): Tetiana Koltunovych
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: Pre-school teachers’ professional burnout; values; value structure; leading values; basic values
Summary/Abstract: This study was carried out among 408 pre-school teachers working in kindergartens of state property in Chernivtsi (Ukraine) and Chernivtsi region. The present research aims to uncover the main accents of psychological knowledge of values at pre-school teachers with different levels of professional burnout. Research objectives reduced to: 1) identify the nature of the relationship between values and pre-school teachers professional burnout; 2) highlight the functional role of values in shaping pre-school teachers professional burnout. Methodics of research were: questionnaire “Emotional Burnout” V. V. Boyko and “Questionnaire of S. Schwartz to study the personal values”. The article empirically proven assumptions about the existence of the relationship between burnout and values, the determination of burnout at various stages of its formation not only the individual values (“Conformity”, “Power”, “Hedonism” on the level of normative ideals; “Benevolence”, “Power” on the level of personal priorities), but also according to their structural organization at the both levels; defined leading and basic values, which carry the strongest influence on the burnout forming.

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