THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BURNOUT AND UNEMPLOYMENT ANXIETY IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER CANDIDATES

Yasar Yasar

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This research was carried out to investigate the causes of burnout levels that may exist in prospective physical education teachers before graduation and to examine the relationship between unemployment anxiety and burnout. The population of the research consists of students from the Physical Education Teaching Department of the Faculty of Sport Sciences in Turkey. The sample consisted of 651 volunteer students selected by random method. The study data were obtained through the Personal Information Form, Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Form and Sociometric Questions Scale on Unemployment Anxiety. The sample group of this study consisted of 651 pre-service teachers who continued their education in the fourth grade in the autumn term of the 2023-2024 academic year at Çukurova University, Mersin University and Gaziantep University Faculty of Sport Sciences. The data obtained were analysed using SPSS 25.0 package programme and the significance level was determined as 0.05. According to the findings obtained as a result of the study, it shows that unemployment anxiety is higher in female pre-service teachers than in male pre-service teachers, while unemployed pre-service teachers have higher scores in terms of both burnout and unemployment anxiety.

 

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physical education, university student, burnout, anxiety, unemployment

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejpe.v11i6.5758

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