Mentees’ Burnout and Mentors’ Self Efficacy: A Study with the Pre Service ESL Teachers in Sri Lanka

Darshana Samaraweera; Junainah Abd Hamid; Abdol Ali Khatibi; S.M. Ferdous Azam; Isuri Dharmaratne

Authors

Darshana Samaraweera Management and Science University, Malaysia
Junainah Abd Hamid Management and Science University, Malaysia
Abdol Ali Khatibi Management and Science University, Malaysia
S.M. Ferdous Azam Management and Science University, Malaysia
Isuri Dharmaratne Management and Science University, Malaysia

Keywords:

burnout, mentoring, mentors, self-efficacy

Abstract

Mentor mentee rerlationship is a very decisive factor within a mentoring context in any field. If the mentors are professional and efficacious mentees will be motivated very easily. If the mentees are new to the system their motivation kindled thus, will take them a long way in the academic field. Purpose of this study was to find whether the mentors’ self-efficacy could have any effect on the burnout level of the mentees. For this, a sample of 180 pre service English language (ESL) teachers and 86 school mentors was selected from the three National Colleges of Education (NCOE) while they were on their one year internship period with school mentors. Data were collected using two standard instruments (The Copenhagen Burnout Inventory and a tool developed to measure self-efficacy based on guidelines developed by Albert Bandura) and analyzed using the SPSS version 21. Findings show that there is a statistically significant relationship between the two variables and therefore, mentors’ self-efficacy should be a very important consideration in pre service teacher development.

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