The relationship between job burnout and mental health of physical education teachers in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province

Background and Objectives: Paying attention to maintaining and promoting the physical and mental health of teachers is one of the most important health ‎issues. Job burnout is one of the occupational hazards that has received attention in recent years. In addition to adverse ‎physical effects, this problem also has numerous psychological complications. The purpose of this study is to investigate the ‎relationship between job burnout and mental health of physical education teachers in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province.
Methods: The ‎present research method is applied in terms of purpose, descriptive in terms of survey method, and field in terms of data ‎collection. The statistical population of the study is 160 physical education teachers in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, and ‎the statistical sample of the study was considered to be 113 people using the Krejci and Morgan table. The statistical ‎population of the study is 160 physical education teachers in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, and the statistical sample of ‎the study was considered to be 113 people using the Krejci and Morgan table. For this purpose, to achieve this goal, two ‎questionnaires on job burnout and mental health, whose validity was calculated through Cronbach's alpha coefficient, and a ‎personal characteristics checklist. The entire population, which consisted of 113 people, was provided as a sample. After ‎completion, the information related to the research samples was analyzed using two-group t-test statistical models, one-way ‎analysis of variance, regression analytical models, and Pearson's correlation coefficient at a significant level (p<0.05 and ‎p<0.01).
Findings: The results of this study showed that there is a significant negative relationship between burnout and mental health. ‎This means that as burnout increases, employees' mental health decreases, and as burnout decreases, mental health ‎increases.
Conclusion: Other research results showed that field of study, participation in in-service courses, and region are generally ‎ineffective, but age, marital status, level of education, and employment history are effective in the level of burnout and mental ‎health of employees.‎