Correlation between Parental Involvement and Burnout among Kindergarten Teachers in Israel's Arab Society

Abstract

This study seeks to describe the degree of the kindergarten parent's involvement, as well as burnout levels among Arab kindergarten teachers, In addition, the present study will examine the impact of parental involvement on the degree of burnout in the sense of the kindergarten teachers. The study involved 98 kindergarten teachers, sampled randomly from Arab communities in northern Israel, and was a personal and direct request toward them to participate in the study. This study used "Multi-choice" questionnaires. The questionnaires are structured, anonymous and intended to be self-reporting, in order to measure the level of parental involvement and aspects according to kindergarten teachers' point of view and measuring the level of burnout amongst them. The answers scale built by the Likert scale of 6 levels (1 - never to 6 - always). It was found that there are significant negative relationship between perception and involvement as a Share dimensional in general to burnout dimension among all the kindergarten teachers, as much the parental involvement is seen as sharing the level of exhaustion, lack of fulfillment, and de-personalization is down and the overall level of burnout decreases. It was found that there are significant strong positive relationships between general perception of parental involvement and the extent of burnout and general burnout among all kindergarten teachers, as much the parental involvement as general increases  the exhaustion, non-fulfillment, and de-personalization increasing and also the general burnout  levels increases. It was found that there is a significant positive correlation between seniority teachers and exhaustion, in correlation when the exhaustion increases the seniority level increases as well, also found that there is a significant positive correlation between seniority teachers and the general burnout when the seniority increases the overall level of burnout increases. It was found that there is a significant positive correlation between level of education and a sense of non-fulfillment among all the teachers, the higher the level of education increases the level of non-fulfillment arises. And also found that there is significant positive correlation between level of education and a general burnout, as the level of education increases the overall level of burnout increases.