The Effect of Age on Job Burnout and Occupational Stress among high school teachers

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of age of school teachers on their job burnout and occupational stress. A descriptive research design was used to study teachers working in high schools of Mysore city, Karnataka State, India. The data were collected from 388 teachers using stratified random sampling. The instruments used to measure the variables were: 1) Maslach Burnout Inventory by Maslach and Jackson (1981) and 2). The Occupational Stress Index by Srivastava and Singh (1984). The statistical techniques of descriptive statistics, and one way ANOVA were employed to analyze the data. Results revealed that age had significant influence over one of the component of burn out scores. In reduced of personal accomplishment, teachers with higher age groups had higher burn out scores. However, there were no significant differences between different age groups of school teachers with reference to their occupational stress

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occupational stress ، job burnout ، age groups ، high school teacher