Factors Affecting The Emotional Exhaustion Of Vietnam’s Primary Teachers

Abstract

The study explored how primary school teachers' Emotional Exhaustion (emotional exhaustion) is implemented in the context of the General Education Curriculum 2018 and what factors it is influenced by. By gathering quantitative data from 310 primary teachers through a questionnaire, the study has given the reality of emotional exhaustion and a number of factors that influence it such as supervisory support, time pressure, relations with parents, relation with colleagues, autonomy. We use descriptive statistical analysis to determine the level of teachers' emotional exhaustion and teachers’ perceptions of factors related to the school context such as support, time pressure, relations with parents, relation with colleagues, autonomy. To explore the relationship between emotional exhaustion and factors related to context of the school, the study used linear regression analysis. Results of the analysis showed that only three of the 11 factors considered had an impact on primary teachers' emotional exhaustion in the context of implementing education programme changes: supervisory support, time pressure and training degree. The regression model showed that time pressure had the strongest impact on emotional exhaustion, while supervitory support had the inverse relationship with emotional exhaustion, whereas time pressures and traning degrees had the most positive effect on emotional exhaustion.