Burnout levels of sport managers in provincial organizations of Turkish Youth and Sport General Directorate

The aim of this study was to investigate the "physiological burnout, desensitization and burnout of individual success among personnel working in provincial organizations of Youth and Sport General Directorate (YSGD) of Turkey. Data were collected by Maslach Burnout Inventory which was developed by Maslach and Jackson (1981) and adapted in Turkish by Ergin (1992). One hundred and thirty nine managers were selected randomly from 41 provincial organizations of ySgd as participants. T- test was used to analyze the collected data. Results show that managers have low level of physiological burnout and depersonalization. On the other hand they have medium level of burnout of individual success. According to the results, positive and high correlation was determined between depersonalization and psychological burnout.