The role of social intelligence in overcoming mental burnout in the aspect of subject genesis of teachers working with children with special educational needs

Abstract

Among the numerous factors of the subject genesis of teachers, social intelligence plays an important role. Social intelligence is defined as a special quality of a person, her ability to understand, differentiate and predict the verbal and non-verbal behavior of other people and the consequences, quickly and easily come into contact with them, which determine the effectiveness of social interaction. The results of the relationship between social intelligence and mental burnout were obtained by researchers. The problem of the role of social intelligence in overcoming mental burnout is relevant and poorly researched. The teachers working at the Kursk boarding school for children with disabilities at the Kursk boarding school for children with disabilities (all participants are females; N = 50; professional experience up to 43 years) voluntarily took part in the study. Observation and conversation, as well as standardized techniques for diagnosing burnout and social intelligence, were used from a number of empirical methods. To process the research results, computer methods were used by the mathematics of statistical analysis. It has been empirically proven that the underdeveloped ability of teachers to understand the change in the meaning of similar verbal reactions of students, their parents, colleagues, administration (F=4,38; df=2,47; β =-0,412; р=0,019), as well as to logically generalize and highlight common and significant signs in their various non-verbal reactions (F=3,90; df=2,47; β = 0,364; p=0,030) increase the risk of mental burnout. On the contrary, well-developed abilities to foresee the consequences of the behavior of other people in a certain situation can be considered as a factor in overcoming psychosomatic and psycho-vegetative disorders (F = 136,66; β = -0,952; р =0,0000), irritability, resentment, harshness, rudeness, emotional and personal isolation (F = 115,17; β = -0,840; р = 0,0000), the feeling that it is emotionally impossible to help their wards (F = 115,33; β = -0,936; р = 0,0000).