Studying the Relationship between General Health and Occupational Burnout and Social Competency of Primary SchoolFemale Teachers of Tehran (Academic year of 1392-93)

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The present study was conducted with the aim of studying the relation between general health and occupational burnout and social efficiency of primary school female teachers in the city of Tehran. In this research, the 28-item General Health Questionnaire(GHQ) was used for assessing the general health. Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) which consists of 25 items and four scales of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, personal accomplishment, and tensionwas utilized. Flener four-dimensional model questionnaire, which consists of 47 items, was administered for assessing social competences. Raw data, collected through descriptive statistics (mean, deviation) and inferential statistics, was then analyzed. Simple linear regression was used for inferential analyses. The results indicate that there is indirect and significant relationship between general health and occupational burnout, in a sense that when general health increases, occupational burnout decreases, and when general health decreases, occupational burnout increases. However, there was no significant relationship between general health and social efficiency.

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