The interconnection between the degree of manifestation of the emotional burnout syndrome symptoms and cerebral hemispheric dominance of Yugra teachers

Professional activity of teachers is characterized by a number of features allowing to reckon it among the group of risk of origination and development of emotional burnout syndrome. Thus, there is a negative change in psychosomatic health of teachers and reduction of their effectiveness. Many factors, including the typological features of the individual, can help or hinder the development of emotional burnout syndrome. The goal of the research was to establish interconnection between the degree of manifestation of emotional burnout syndrome symptoms and the functional asymmetry of the cerebral hemispheres of Yugra teachers. The paper presents the results of school teachers analysis (217 women) aged 23 to 69, with the mean age of 43 years and professional experience from 1 to 40 years. The teachers have passed "Emotional and Professional Burnout" test (V.V. Boyko) and emotional burnout MBI questionnaire (adapted by N.E. Vodopyanova). There were also determined the psychic asymmetry of the hemispheres and the profile of lateral organization (by E.D. Khomsky and others). According to the results of the research it was found that none of the emotional burnout syndrome symptoms are formed, and at the stage of formation are the symptoms of the "resistance" phase. In the process of division of teachers (in %) according to the psychic asymmetry of the cerebral hemispheres and formation degree of each of the 4 symptoms of "resistance" phase, it was found that the most part of them were sinistrocerebral - 55-65%, ambidextrous - 20-30%, dextrocerebral - 7-19%. It is set that the number of the dextrocerebral for symptom V "improper emotional response" from the stage "unformed" to the stage "formed" increases (from 8.33 to 19.59%). The same pattern - increasing of the number of the dextrocerebral - but less evident can also be seen in the formation of symptoms VII -"expansion of the economy of the emotional sphere", VIII - "reduction of professional duties". Negative emotions are mostly associated with the right hemisphere, and positive - with the left one. We suppose that this is what explains the increase of the number of the dextrocerebral in the formation of the considered symptoms, especially of the symptom of "improper emotional response." Low coefficient of correlation between the psychic asymmetry and the profile of the lateral organization in the group of teachers (r = 0.13) indicates that psychic asymmetry little depends on the motor, visual and auditory asymmetry. The results of the research confirm the correlation between the characteristics of psychic asymmetry of the cerebral hemispheres and the development of emotional burnout syndrome symptoms.

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