Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine burnout level and relating factors, working environment of whom a number of vocational counselor work for the employment security centers of Republic of Korea. By means of the method of the study, We conducted the survey that several vocational counselor who work for the employment security centers answered the questions such as the burnout phenomena, the work environment, the job satisfaction, characteristics of taking up another employment, the characteristics of population. The answers of total 165 persons are used for the data analysis. The statistical techniques of frequency analysis, t-test, ANOVA, and correlation analysis were used to examine the research problems. The result of the study is following: the first, the burnout of the emotional exhaustion and client depersonalization among three fields occurs once a week. The second, the question that a vocational counselor want to take up another employment mostly shows the preference of taking another employment mainly because of low wage level and future visionless. The third, the relation between the burnout experience and the characteristics of population shows conspicuously the differences between the incumbent job and the burnout experience level in that the staff dealing with unemployment insurance had experienced much more burnout than the staff dealing with vocational counseling and guidance. The fourth, the interrelation among the burnout, work environment, job satisfaction, and willing of taking up another employment shows generally negative relation. In sum, the burnout of the vocational counselor should be understood as the multi-dimensional problems connecting correlations of several factors, not one factor.