Academicians’ Burnout, Vigor and Occupational Satisfactions in the Department of Fine Arts Education: A Sample of Uludag University

Abstract

The success of an educational institution is heavily based on instructors’ occupational satisfaction and their happiness at their workplace. Therefore, determining the case of the instructors’ wellbeing in order to improve working standards is really important to sustain high quality in education. In this sense, this study set out to identify state of academicians in terms of their level of burnout, vigor and occupational satisfaction at a department of Fine Arts Education at Uludag University. All 42 academician participants attended the study. To determine the level of burnout and vigor, Shirom-Melamed Burnout Measure was employed, and to learn participants’ occupational satisfaction levels, a questionnaire developed by authors was used. The results show that burnout and vigor have negative correlation and occupational satisfaction has negatively correlated with emotional exhaustion, which is a sub-dimension of burnout but positively correlated with physical strength, which is a sub-dimension of vigor. Moreover, it is determined that the academicians who go to the doctor less frequently have higher occupational satisfaction and the academicians who are facing health issues have higher level of burnout. The results confirm that health status significantly affects one sub-dimension of burnout, which is physical fatigue.

Comparison of burnout, vigor and education satisfaction of music and art majors in department of fine arts education

“…This means that as the level of burnout increase, the level of vigor and educational satisfaction decrease. In the literature, studies indicated that burnout has negative effect on vigor [35,42]. This recent study's findings are parallel with the literature.…”

“…Table 3 shows that for both music and art students, gender did not have any significant effect on SMBM, SMVM and ES scores, p>0.05. In the literature, there are some studies that show females have more burnout and less vigor, and in some studies there is no significant difference [35]. In this study, female and male students seemed to have similar levels of burnout, vigor and educational satisfaction.…”

“…This is probably due to the strength of interpersonal relationships in which students study too much. It is recognized that the style of management of abuse, frequently encountered by professionals such as health workers and students, is harmful to personal health, morality and success [35].…”

Is the vitality of Malaysian academics at stake?

“…The later attributed it to career change, responsibility over family, as well as workload imparted on them from various obligations. However, a study by Demirbatir and Engür (2018) show no significant difference in age group between any dimensions of their study on academics. In terms of gender, previous studies (like, Bayram et al , 2010; Demirbatir and Engür, 2018; Henny et al , 2014) discovered that female lecturers are more prone to stress than their male counterparts.…”

Relationship among faculty fatigue, academic rank, and scholarship and service productivity

“…Workload included teaching, scholarship and service commitments. In a study of fine arts faculty in Turkey, Demirbatir and Engür (2019) found that health status affects fatigue, job satisfaction and burnout. Whereas Martini et al (2019) found with Italian university faculty that increased student demands can be emotionally exhausting, and that positive student support was ‘associated with higher levels of engagement’ (p. 4).…”