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Table 2 MBI exhaustion, cynicism and professional efficacy in the total study population, stratified by gender and year of compulsory school

From: Burnout among Swedish school teachers – a cross-sectional analysis

  

All teachers

Females

Males

 

Year of compulsory school

Dimensions

Scale

N

 

n = 356

n = 134

P*

Year 4–6 (N = 153)

Year 7–9 (N = 337)

P*

Exhaustion; mean (SD)

0–6

490

2.9 (1.4)

3.0 (1.4)

2.6 (1.5)

<0.01

2.8 (1.3)

2.9 (1.5)

0.26

 High exhaustion; n (%)

  

178 (36)

138 (39)

40 (30)

0.07

51 (33)

127 (38)

0.35

Cynicism; mean (SD)

0–6

490

1.6 (1.2)

1.6 (1.2)

1.8 (1.3)

0.07

1.4 (1.0)

1.8 (1.3)

<0.01

 High cynicism; n (%)

  

55 (11)

37 (10)

18 (13)

0.31

11 (7)

44 (13)

0.06

Professional efficacy; mean (SD)

0–6

490

5.0 (0.8)

5.0 (0.8)

5.0 (0.8)

0.65

5.2 (0.7)

4.9 (0.8)

<0.01

 Low professional efficacy; n (%)

  

102 (21)

73 (21)

29 (22)

0.78

19 (12)

83 (25)

<0.01

  1. *Mann Whitney U tests of differences between gender and year of compulsory school