Tatiana N. Stashkova

The problem of preservation of preschool teachers’ psychological well-being rose dramatically in the past 30 years. The study of emotional burnout with Maslach-Burnout-Inventory was conducted among 24 preschool teachers of two Russian kindergartens. The results showed that emotional burnout is frequent to teachers with 5-10 years of professional experience, occurring 1-2 times a year. 69% of teachers defined the burnout states to last from 3-5 to 5-7 days. For a year, correctional interventions had been administered to teachers who had had described their emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduction of achievement to be “more than normal”. The after-study of those teachers proved their levels of professional burnout to have significantly lowered.