ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To understand the current status and influencing factors of job burnout in rural preschool teachers. METHODS: A stratified cluster random sampling method was used to investigate the job burnout and social support of 756 rural preschool teachers in Sichuan Province using the Maslach Burnout Inventory, Educators Survey and Social Support Revalued Scale. RESULTS: The positive rate of job burnout was 22.1%(167/756), and the positive rates of emotional exhaustion, reduced personal achievement, and depersonalization were 13.1%, 10.7% and 1.2%, respectively. The results of unconditional logistic regression analysis showed that post status, daily working hours, subjective support and utilization of support were all related to job burnout(P<0.05). Among them, in-post and daily working hours >10 hours were risk factors of job burnout, high subjective support and utilization of support were the protective factors of job burnout. CONCLUSION: The situation of job burnout in rural preschool teachers in Sichuan Province is not serious, post status, daily work hours and social support can affect their job burnout.