The Relationship between Mental Health and Quality of Work Life and Job Burnout of Elementary School Teachers in District 5 Municipality of Tehran

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between mental health and quality of work life and job burnout of elementary school teachers at Education Organization of Tehran Province. The research methodology is “applied” in terms of objective while its research method was “descriptive” which is categorized in the field correlation research in terms of data collection. The subject of study consisted of all teachers of elementary schools in Education Organization of District 5 Municipality of Tehran in the Academic Year 2015 – 2016. Given the above issue, 1,350 people included the study. By referring to Morgan Table, a number of 279 samples were selected using Simple Randomized Sampling Method. The data collection tool was three questionnaires including “Public Health”, “Quality of Working Life” and “Job Burnout”, so that their reliability coefficient was determined 0.865, 0.913 and 0.859 respectively using Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient. To describe the data, tables of distribution of frequency (dF), linear diagram of means and central indices such as mean, standard deviation (SD), skewness and kurtosis were used. Then, proper tests of inferential statistics [including Kolmogorov – Smirnov Good Fitness Test, Spearman Correlation Coefficient, Determination Coefficient, Mann – Whitney and Kruskal – Wallis] was used for analyzing hypotheses of the research statistically. The results showed that there is a significant and inverse relationship between “mental health”, “quality of work life” and “job burnout” among teachers of elementary school in Education Organization of District 5 Municipality of Tehran. In other words, improvement of quality of working life and promotion of mental health among teachers is led to the reduced job burnout.