• Ambrien Ahmed

Objective: Teachers are considered as the most important group of professionals for the future growth and development of any nation and also regarded as the key resource for an efficient school system. In the present era challenges of Indian educational system makes the real premises for teachers to experience burnout. Since burnout a work related problem which most of the professionals need to deal with. Therefore, this study aims to figure out the existence of burnout syndrome in teachers and to investigate its relationship with emotional intelligence. Method: Sample of 240 teachers has been selected randomly from public and private schools from all the five districts of Delhi. Maslach burnout inventory developed by Maslach, Jackson and Leiter (1996) was used to assess the burnout among teachers and the Emotional Intelligence: reactions to teaching situations (RTS) by Perry & Ball (2005) was used to measure emotional intelligence of teachers in the present study. Demographic factors, including type of school, level of teaching and marital status were examined to determine if they were explanatory factors. Descriptive statistics and Analysis of variance were used to analyze the data. Results: The results exhibited a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and three dimensions of burnout. It was indicated that public school teachers exhibit less burnout and high emotional intelligence as compared to private school teachers. Further, senior secondary teachers show high burnout with low emotional intelligence as compared to their counterparts. Married teachers reveal less burnout than unmarried teachers. However, this group didn’t show any significant difference in emotional intelligence.

Emotional intelligence, burnout, School teachers

"A STUDY ON BURNOUT AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AMONG SCHOOL TEACHERS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no.26-32, September-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006272.pdf

"A STUDY ON BURNOUT AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AMONG SCHOOL TEACHERS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no. pp26-32, September-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006272.pdf