Investigating the role of organizational happiness inteachers’ occupational burnout

Abstract

The present paper studies the impact of organizational happiness on teachers’ occupational burnout. This research employs a descriptive-correlational method. The statistical population is consisted of all 530 elementary school teachers in the city of Kuhdasht. Using Krejcie and Morgan table, sample size is determined to be 226. In order to collect the required data, the Oxford Happiness questionnaire and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) questionnaire have been used. In order to analyze the data and examine the hypotheses, descriptive statistic indices including mean and standard deviation as well as inferential statistics such as Pearson’s correlation test have been used. The results indicate that the total scale of organizational happiness and the components of self-concept, life satisfaction, mental preparation, aesthetic emotion, self-efficacy, and hopefulness have a negative and significant relationship with occupational burnout. This implies that as teachers’ self-concept, life satisfaction, mental preparation, aesthetic emotion, self-efficacy, and hopefulness improve, their occupational burnout decreases.

Keywords: happiness, occupational burnout, teachers