Emotional exhaustion and organizational commitment: Primary school teachers’ perspective

Wullur, Mozes M.; Werang, Basilius Redan

doi:10.11591/ijere.v9i4.20727

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Emotional exhaustion and organizational commitment: Primary school teachers’ perspective

International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE) · Vol. 9 No. 4 (2020) · pp. 912–919

DOI: 10.11591/ijere.v9i4.20727
ISSN: 2620-5440, 2252-8822
Published: 2020-12-01
Publisher: Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
Language: eng
License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

Abstract

Teaching is a noble profession to educate the youth of nations facing today’s global challenges. Teaching, at the same time, has become a highly challenging profession and occasionally a draining work, especially for those who are working in the remote areas. A high-level of teacher absenteeism in the primary schools of Southern Papua has blown some societal alarm for conducting studies focusing on emotional exhaustion as a latent predictor for low-performance. This study attempted to describe the eventual correlation between the emotional exhaustion and organizational commitment of teachers working in the primary schools of Merauke, Indonesia. A survey approach was employed to collect data from a total of 243 primary school teachers in Merauke, Papua, Indonesia. Data were examined statistically by employing Pearson’s correlation model. Results of analysis showed that the emotional exhaustion and commitment of primary school teachers in Merauke, Indonesia, are significantly negatively correlated. This result may be useful for the teachers to benefit from the information of how they may interact with all the school elements and the extent to which these emotions directly affect their organizational commitment. The result may also be advisable for the school leaders to take some tactical efforts of securing teachers’ emotion to promote a high-level of teachers’ organizational commitment and, in turn, improving students’ capabilities in reading, writing, and arithmetics.

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Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha
Sam Ratulangi University
Tamkang University
UNSW Sydney
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Co-author	Organisation	Joint articles
Sandra Ingried Asaloei	Sam Ratulangi University	6
I Made Suarjana	Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha	2
Agustinus Kia Wolomasi	Affiliation unknown	2
Jian-Bang Deng	Tamkang University	1
I Made Citra Wibawa	Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha	1
Ni Wayan Rati	Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha	1
I Gede Astawan	Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha	1
M Sianturi	UNSW Sydney	1
Emmanuel Chinedu Elele	Affiliation unknown	1
Ketut Susiani	Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha	1
Kadek Yudiana	Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha	1
Ni Putu Kusuma Widiastuti	Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha	1
Riane Johnly Pio	Sam Ratulangi University	1
Edmond Leonard Jim	Sam Ratulangi University	1
Kariyanti Kumala Dewi	Affiliation unknown	1
Seli Marlina Radja Leba	Affiliation unknown	1
Nova Lina Sari Habeahan	Affiliation unknown	1
Wahyuniar Wahyuniar	Affiliation unknown	1
Dina Br Tarigan	Affiliation unknown	1

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