The Relationship among Life of Meaning, Career Self-Efficacy, and Burnout of Elementary School Counselors.

• Main Authors: Lin, Yuyao, 林裕堯
• Other Authors: Han, Kaicheng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/94878351771131438027

碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 諮商與應用心理學系碩士班 === 100 === Abstract The purposes of this study were to (a)investigate the relationship among life of meaning, career self-efficacy and burnout of elementary school counselors, (b)explore the differences of these three variables between counselors’ training backgrounds, work years and school sizes, and (c)examine the effects of mediator on career self-efficacy between life of meaning and burnout. The sample consisted of 352 elementary school counselors and which were sampled from 82 elementary schools of Taichung city, Changhua county, and Nantou county in Taiwan. The instruments in this study included The Life of Meaning Scale, The Career Self-Efficacy Scale, and The Job Burnout Scale. The obtained data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, ANOVA, Pearson’s product-moment correlation, and structural equation model. The results of this study were as follows: 1.The elementary school counselors felt satisfied, delighted and meaningful to their own lives. 2.The elementary school counselors felt certain of works with difficulty, but they still had good career self-efficacy. 3.The job burnout of elementary school counselors was not serious. 4.There were significant differences in rating life of meaning, career self-efficacy and job burnout among different counselors’ training backgrounds. 5.There were significant differences in rating job burnout among different counselors’ work years, but no significant differences in rating life of meaning and career self-efficacy. 6.There were no significant differences in rating life of meaning, career self-efficacy and job burnout among different counselors’ school sizes. 7.There were significant correlations among life of meaning, career self-efficacy and job burnout. 8.In modification indices of path model, there were direct effects on life of meaning and career self-efficacy to job burnout. Career self-efficacy partially mediated the association between life of meaning and job burnout. Based on the findings, some suggestions were proposed for future researches, administrative departments and school counselors.