A Comparison of Female and Male School Administrators’ Burnout Levels Controlling for Perceived Social Support

The main purpose of the study was to compare burnout levels of school administrators according to gender variable by using social support as a covariate. The sample of the study was 306 school administrators in downtown Ankara and its seven districts. A factorial ANOVA design with covariates was fol...

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Published in:Egitim ve Bilim 2013-07, Vol.38 (169)
Main Author: Başol,Gülşah
Format: Article
Language:English
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Eğitim Bilimleri
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Summary:The main purpose of the study was to compare burnout levels of school administrators according to gender variable by using social support as a covariate. The sample of the study was 306 school administrators in downtown Ankara and its seven districts. A factorial ANOVA design with covariates was followed in the study. Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) were used to gather data along with a brief personal information sheet. Results indicated a negative relationship between occupational burnout and social support levels. Therefore, increased social support level tends to correspond with a decrease in burnout level. In the light of this finding and the related literature, it was decided to control the effect of social support on burnout while we look at the differences by gender. First, the school administrators’ burnout levels are searched through One Way Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) for gender. According to the fi
ISSN:1300-1337