FEATURES OF PROFESSIONAL BURNOUT IN THE TEACHERS-CHOREOGRAPHERS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the features of professional burnout of choreographers, whose work is associated with intense physical and emotional stress, which combines the functions of a teacher, a choreographer and a tutor. The authors consider the burning out as a three-component system that includes psycho-emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduction of professional achievements. The peculiarities of the choreographers’ pedagogical activity were considered which are related to their characteristics that contribute to the formation of the professional burnout phenomenon. The peculiarities of the three main structural components of the choreographer profession are analysed, which affect the level of neuropsychiatric violation, such as pedagogical activity, pedagogical communication, and personal qualities of a teacher-choreographer. The role of the global pandemic Covid-19, the distance learning, and high demands relating to the personality of the teacherchoreographer was separately considered, which could also be a prerequisite for professional burnout. This is because conducting distance lessons often takes more time, effort and energy from the teachers. It can be more stressful, due to lower involvement and return from students than in regular classes. The article is highlighted certain stressful features of pedagogical communication in the activities of a teacher-choreographer. It is also, noted the idea that the state of chronic emotional stress can lead to deformation of the emotional sphere of the teacher, a form of which is professional burnout. A rather high level of mental burnout in teachers was revealed, in the structure of which the leading role is played by the component of professional motivation; high level of neuroticism; high level of the inconsistency of significant values with the possibility of their implementation in professional activities; an average level of skills development and abilities of self-regulation; quite favourable socio-psychological climate and satisfactory nature of the organization of teachers’ professional activities. The main determinants that cause the emergence of occupational burnout have been identified and systematized, which include internal individual psychological and external socio-psychological factors. The authors prove the importance of the syndrome of professional burnout in choreographers, which is because their activities are related to the education, upbringing and development of children, the formation of the comprehensive and harmonious development of youth, and their abilities to achieve the highest values of society: human happiness, goodness, beauty and spiritual rebirth