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The Relationship between Organizational Climate, Job stress, Job burnout of the Physical education teachers: A case of the Schools at Islamshahr, Iran

Author Affiliations

  • 1Deptt. of Physical Education and Sports Science, Islamshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IRAN
  • 2Deptt. of Physical Education and Sports Science, Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IRAN

Res. J. Recent Sci., Volume 4, Issue (5), Pages 114-119, May,2 (2015)

Abstract

The present study aimed to examine the relationship between organizational climate, job stress and job burnout of the physical education teachers in Islamshahr schools .The study was conducted on 185 female and male physical education teachers in Islamshahr town working in primary, guidance and secondary schools during academic year 2012-2013.131 teachers were selected by simple random sampling. For data collection, three questionnaires were applied as Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire Revision Secondary Schools (OCDQ-RS) with the reliability of 0.82. Meshach Burnout Inventory (MBI) with the reliability of 0.83 and Kyricou & Sutcliff Stress Questionnaire, with the reliability 0.93 were used. The results of the study showed that there was a significant association between organizational climate dimensions of the schools and job burnout of the teachers with correlation coefficient r=0.430. The results of the regression analysis showed that there was a significant positive correlation among organizational climate dimensions, hopeless attitude of teachers and directive behavior of the managers with job burnout of the physical education teachers (P<0.05). There was a negative correlation between engaged behavior of the teachers, friendly attitude of the teachers and supportive behavior of the manager with job burnout of physical education teachers. The results showed a correlation between the dimensions of organizational climate and teachers' job stress level of 0.180 at α=0.05, which shows that there is a significant relationship. The regression results showed that there is a positive correlation between organizational climate dimensions of directive behavior of the manager and hopeless attitude of the teachers with job stress of the physical education teachers. There was a negative correlation between engaged behavior and friendly attitude of the teachers and supportive behavior of the managers with job stress of the physical education teachers. The results showed that there was a correlation between job burnout dimensions of the teachers and organizational climate of the schools as 0.359 at α=0.05 and it showed the significant relationship. The results of regression analysis showed that among the dimensions of job burnout analysis, there was a negative correlation between emotional burn out and depersonalization and organizational climate of the schools but there was a positive correlation between personal success and organizational climate of the schools. The results of the study showed that there was a significant association between organizational climate dimensions and job burnout of the physical education teachers of the schools of Islamshahr town and organizational climate was a good predictor for stress and job burnout of the physical education teachers.

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