Summary: | 碩士 === 南華大學 === 生死學系 === 100 === This research explores the correlation between working pressure, professional burnout, and the notion of one’s life searching of their life’s purpose, as well as investigating the effects different backgrounds have on each of the three, in order to understand the impact that working pressure and life purpose have on professional burnout.
A questionnaire focusing on working pressure, life purpose, and professional burnout of local taxation personnel was conducted. Taxation personnel of Tax Bureau and Revenue Service from Chiayi County, Chiayi City, Tainan City, Kaohsiung City, and Pingtung County (including all subunits) were along the interviewees. After stratifying proportional sampling, the total effective samples obtained were 713.
Descriptive statistics, T-test, One Way Analysis of Variance, Person’s Correlation and Simple Linear Regression, and Multiple Regression Analysis were utilized in analyzing the research data, research findings are as follows:
1. The work pressure sensitivity ranking of the local taxation personnel is medium. Among all categories, “workload” imposes the most pressure on the interviewees.
2. Purpose of life ranks medium to high among local taxation personnel, within this category, “soul evolvement” is the most significant.
3. The sensitivity of professional burnout is classified as medium to low among interviewed taxation personnel; the feeling of “emotional burnout” is the most sensible.
4. Single, young, junior female taxation employees who are without children, were more sensitive to working pressure.
5. Married, senior taxation personnel with children who are younger than high school age are more sensitive to purpose of life.
6. Single, young, junior taxation personnel with bachelor’s degree has a higher tendency to experience professional burnout.
7. There is a negative correlation between work pressure and purpose of life; a significant positive correlation between working pressure and professional burnout; a negative correlation between professional burnout and purpose of life.
8. Working pressure and purpose of life are indicators of professional burnout; “workload” is the most significant indicator of all.
Based on the findings from this study, some recommendations for Tax Bureau, local taxation personnel and future researches are made.
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