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The creation of conditions for the emotional well-being of teachers in the conditions of the labour process transformation is necessary for the prevention of the occurrence of production-related morbidity and the creation of the most favourable working conditions. The purpose of the research is to assess the formation stages of symptom complexes of professional burnout among pedagogical workers of educational institutions of various types. The leading research method is experimental. During the ascertaining experiment, the level of professional burnout was assessed according to V. V. Boiko 's method "Diagnostics of the level of emotional burnout" among 852 pedagogical workers of the Sumy region during 2008-2021. The dependence of the development ofprofessional burnout and symptom complexes of tension, resistance, and exhaustion on organizational factors of the type of educational institution was established. The obtained results of the research made it possible to develop practical recommendations for the promotion of professional health of primary school teachers, which are based on information, health, psychotherapeutic and organizational measures.
Keywords: professional burnout, symptom complexes, pedagogical workers, educational institutions of various types
INTRODUCTION
The basis of the promotion of the health of pedagogical workers should be the prevention of psychosomatic and psychovegetative disorders that arise against the background of the complex interaction of organizational factors of the labour process, the peculiarities of professional activity, work situations, communications, personal characteristics, and the search for a balance between work and personal life. As a result of exposure to such long-term professional stresses of medium intensity, professional burnout (PB) occurs among pedagogical workers (Prokopenko, 2019; Teles et al., 2020). Scientists analysed the factors leading to the development of professional burnout, studying social, personal, organizational factors and physiological, hygienic correlates of the development of PB (Kalynychenko et al., 2021).
However, scientific research on this problem in recent years is few, so it is necessary to consider the results of scientific research over a wider period of time. The founders of the burnout idea are American psychiatrist H. Friedenberger and social psychologist K. Maslach (1997, 1998, 2000). The latter defined this concept as a syndrome of physical and emotional exhaustion, which includes the development of negative self-esteem, attitude to work, loss of understanding and compassion in relation to clients or patients. K. Maslach emphasizes that...