The Evaluation of the Burnout Levels of the Turkish Football Trainers

The aim of this study is to determine exhaustion levels and some of the factors that affect exhaustion of the Turkish footballtrainers serving in Turkish football leagues. We have applied the Maslach Burnout Inventory to 1096 trainers in 19 provinces(Trabzon, Ankara, Malatya, Konya, Karaman, Antalya, Isparta, Burdur, Denizli, Erzurum, Kütahya, Manisa, Samsun, Eski ehir,U ak, Gümü hane, Bursa, Kocaeli, Mersin), who work in Amateur, 3rd League, 2nd League A, 2nd League B and 1st League.Survey questions are divided into two parts: In the first part, 19 questions were asked to gather personal information and thesecond part composes of 22 questions of Maslach Burnout Inventory. The inventory itself has three parts: emotional burnout,desensitization and personal achievement. One way Anova test has been applied to subjects in order to determine if thedifferences of their burnout levels with respect to their directorship period, marital status and educational level. Tukey (HSD)Test has been applied to determine the groups in which these differences exist. Findings of this study indicate that trainers’burnout level is low in Emotional Exhaustion and Desensitization parts, whereas the Personal Achievement level is found to behigh. As a result, this study shows that, for trainers working in Turkish leagues, differences with respect to directorship period,marital status and three burnout subgroups are found to be meaningful, whereas it was found that it is Desensitization that theonly meaningful difference between educational levels and burnout levels exists. Burnout, stress and methods to overcomethese should be frequently addressed in seminar programs in order for trainers to cope with conflicts and problems that theyencounter in their professional lives.