TEACHERS BURNOUT AND COPING ESTRATEGIES IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS

This research's main objective was to identify the prevalence of burnout syndrome and its possible calls relation with coping strategies. For this purpose we used a sample of 120 teachers which work in primary and secondary levels in several private and public educational institutions. To achieve this objective, we used a descriptive correlacional design nonexperimental cross. We used Maslash Burnout Inventory and the Coping Strategies Scale property. The results indicate the presence of highly prevalent syndrome in 16%, medium in 43% and low in 41% of the population. The coping strategies that are positively related with the syndrome are: social support seeking, professional support seeking. Those that are negatively related are: searching for alternative, behavioral avoidance, conformity, open emotional expression and social support seeking.