Health Promoting Lifestyle, Spontaneity, Psychological Capital and Job Burnout of Elementary School Teachers in Yunlin County

• Main Authors: SHEN,KENG-HONG, 沈耿宏
• Other Authors: LAI,CHIH-CHAO
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68439f

碩士 === 國立雲林科技大學 === 應用外語系 === 105 === The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among health promotion, spontaneity, psychological capital, job burnout, health condition and mental health of school teachers. The participants were mainly school teachers, including elementary school, junior and senior high school in public and private school. The research received 649 questionnaires for analysis. The instruments included (a) Demographics, (b) Spontaneity, (c) Chinese Health Questionnaire(CHQ), (d) Psychological Capital Scale (PCS) (2007), (e) Educator Burnout Inventory(EBI), and Chinese Happiness Inventory(CHI). The analysis will use (a) Descriptive statistics, (b) Confirmatory Factor Analysis and (c) Structural Equation Modeling. The study used structural equation modeling (SEM) to test the purposed research model, the results showed that spontaneity and psychological capital has significant relationship with educator burnout. Moreover teachers’ mental and physical health has a positive relationship with job burnout. Finally, the limitations and recommendations of the study were discussed for future research.