Relationship between workplace bullying and burnout syndrome in high school teachers

Abstract

Several investigations have drawn attention to what has been called the “crisis of the teaching role”, to which the presence of workplace harassment and burnout syndrome has been associated. The objective of this paper is to determine the possible relationship between workplace harassment of high school teachers and the presence of the burnout syndrome. The Cisneros and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (mbi) scales were applied to 63 active professors of the Mexican senior high school. A statistically significant correlation was found between bullying strategies and the Emotional Tiredness dimension (p of 0.313), as well as between the depersonalization dimension and bullying strategies (p of 1,000). It was identified through a mutivariate analysis that harassment strategies are aimed at devaluing and disabling the work of teachers and, secondly, to challenge their values.