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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2019.20.5.343

The effects of work environmental factors and self-compassion on burnout of school counselors  

Kim, Hyun-Jin (Department of Counseling Education, Hannam University Graduate School of Education)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.20, no.5, 2019 , pp. 343-351 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of work environmental factors and self-compassion on the burnout of school counselors. The subjects of this study were 312 school counselors under the D District Office of Education participated. In order to examine the effects of individual, organizational, and self-compassion factors on burnout, correlation and hierarchical regression were applied. Individual factors were gender, age, health status, and personal hobbies. Organizational factors were employment type, working hours, and job satisfaction. Self-compassion and burnout were measured using the Korean version of self-compassion and Baslach burnout instruments. The correlation analysis showed that the three factors are correlated with each other. In the hierarchical regression analysis, three models were developed as personal, organizational, and self-compassion factors. The results of regression analysis are as follows. The influence of self-compassion on burnout was stronger than the organizational factor (i.e., employment type, working time, job satisfaction) and the personal factor (i.e., age, health status, hobby). There were no significant differences between genders. This study results suggest that self-compassion can reduce a level of burnout significantly, although personal and organizational factors have a significant impact on burnout. Further study and suggestions for reducing the level of burnout of school counselors were discussed.
Keywords
Burnout; School Counselors; Self-Compassion; Personal Factor; Organizational Factor;
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