Abstract

ORTIZ PARADA, Manuel Salvador et al. Personality types and Burnout syndrome in pre-school teachers in Chile. Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2012, vol.11, n.1, pp.229-239. ISSN 1657-9267.

With the purpose to determine differences in burnout's level as function of personalities types and attendance in public or private school, a non-experimental study was designed. Burnout levels were measured with the MBI teacher's version and personalities types with the NEO-Five Factors Inventory. A set of socio-demographic variables was included. By means of ANOVA ONEWAY, differences were found in emotional exhaustion among kindergarten teachers who work in public and private school (p < 0.05). Differences were also found between spectator and skeptic personality types in burnout levels, and between skeptic and complicated types in emotional exhaustion (p < 0.05). These results emphasize the relevance to give attention to public school's educator and those who had high neuroticism's levels because they tend to have more burnout.

Keywords : investigación cuantitativa; Burnout; personality types; public and private school; kindergarten teachers; Descriptive transversal study; psychological test; quantitative research.

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