The impact of personal, professional and organizational characteristics on administrator burnout

The purpose of the study was threefold: to identify the most salient personal, professional, and organizational characteristics contributing to administrator burnout; to determine those correlational relationships that are most salient; and to assess the role of social support's impact on job s...

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Published in:Journal of educational administration 1998-05, Vol.36 (2), p.146-159
Main Authors: Gmelch, Walter H., Gates, Gordon
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Administrator Characteristics
Burnout
Coping
Data Analysis
Depersonalization
Discriminant analysis
Education
Educational administration
Elementary Secondary Education
Evaluation
Institutional Characteristics
Investigations
Job Performance
Job Satisfaction
Labor Turnover
Leadership
Middle schools
Occupational health
Perceptions
Personal accomplishment
Personality
Personality Traits
Principals, School
Questionnaires
Regression (Statistics)
Role Conflict
School administration
School principals
Secondary schools
Sex role
Statistics
Stress
Stress (Psychological)
Stress Variables
Surveys
Teachers
Washington
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Summary:The purpose of the study was threefold: to identify the most salient personal, professional, and organizational characteristics contributing to administrator burnout; to determine those correlational relationships that are most salient; and to assess the role of social support's impact on job satisfaction, burnout, and performance. A total of 1,000 principals and superintendents from Washington State were administered the Administrator Work Inventory. The authors identify different strategies to be taken to mitigate the various dimensions of burnout.
ISSN:0957-8234
1758-7395
DOI:10.1108/09578239810204363