Appraising the Relationship between Burnout and Job Satisfactions among Private School Teachers for Quality Education in Wamakko Local Government Area, Sokoto State
Salihu Mukhtar Nawait
Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, Sokoto State University, Sokoto
Lamido M. Rilwanu
Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, Sokoto State University, Sokoto
Usman Bukar Abba
Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, Islamic University, Uganda
Abstract
The study investigated on the relationship between burnout and job satisfactions among private school teachers in Wamakko local government area. It was a cross sectional survey design which consists of 92 respondents (teachers) randomly selected from three purposively selected private schools representing thirty three (33) private schools in the study area. Adopted Maslach Burnout Inventory - Educators Survey (MBI - ES) and Job Satisfactions Survey (JSS) instruments were used for collecting data from the respondents. Two research questions and one hypothesis were formulated which guided the study and the data collected were analysed using Pearson Product Moment Correlations with the help of SPSS Version 20. The results obtained shown the occurrences of burnout among the private school teachers for the first finding. The second finding revealed that there is significant relationship between burnout and job satisfactions of private school teachers in Wamkko local government area. The study recommended that school administrators should collaborate with their respective proprietors to find ways on how to avoid burnout among private schools’ teachers so that job satisfactions can be improved for better result.
Keywords
Burnout, Job Satisfaction, Quality Education
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