A Study of Burnout in Relation to Professional Commitment of College Teachers in Himachal Pradesh
Keywords:
Burnout, Commitment, College TeacherAbstract
Teaching has been one of the oldest and most respected professions in the world. The task of teacher
is shaping the future of citizens and thereby society and nation. Due to respectful duty, teacher has
been respectful in all society through ancient to Buddhist period. In the modern period teacher is
regarded as a custodian and architect of a nation. Today, there are many duties and responsibilities
of a teachers working at different level of education. Burnout is the outcome of excessive stress.
Many illnesses like liver and heart disease are likely due to psychological stresses of modern life. The
percentage of burnout is likely higher today. Better understanding of this stress outcome has to be
promoted. The study was delimited to the thirty four governments and private degree Colleges
located in territory of Himachal Pradesh and seven districts i.e. Hamirpur, Bilaspur, Una, Kangra,
Shimla Chamba and Mandi of Himachal Pradesh. The investigator in the present study has adopted
descriptive survey method. The population for the present study comprised teachers teaching degree
classes in government and private (aided and non-aided) colleges affiliated to Himachal Pradesh
University. Since, it was not possible to cover all the colleges in the State of Himachal Pradesh,
stratified random sampling technique was applied, first for selection of colleges by giving due
weightage to type of management, mode of appointment, location and gender and secondly to draw
the sample of 546 teachers from the colleges. In the present study, the researcher used the following
tools for collection of data:Burnout Inventory (BI) developed by Karuna Shankar Misra (2005). Means,
S.Ds. and t-value as well as analysis of variance (ANOVA) used as a statistical techniques to analyse
and interpret the data used as a statistical techniques to analyse and interpret the data.
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