A correlational study of burnout tendency of secondary school teachers with their age, sex, experience-span and stress

Teaching has been identified as one of the professions associated with high level of stress, which results in burnout. The aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship of burnout tendency of secondary school teachers with their age, sex, experience-span and age. Normative survey method was employed in the present study. 251 teachers were selected through stratified random sampling technique. It was found that after partialling out the effect of stress, the burnout tendency and experience-span government secondary school male and female teachers were insignificantly related. Burnout tendency of secondary school male and female teachers is not affected by their age, when stress is held constant. Age had significant positive effect on burnout tendency government secondary school male and female teachers when experience span is held constant.