Digital burnout and perceptive failure: The example of physical education teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sirin T., Eratli Sirin Y., Can B., Uruc O.

BALTIC JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, cilt.14, sa.1, 2022 (ESCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 14 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.29359/bjhpa.14.1.02
  • Dergi Adı: BALTIC JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: physical education teacher, fatigue, perceptual fatigue, digitalization, burnout, digital burnout
  • Çukurova Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This research was conducted to examine physical education teachers' levels of digital burnout and perceptual fatigue during the COVID-19 pandemic. Material and methods: This study was designed according to the quantitative research model and conducted within the framework of the relational screening model. The research group consists of 504 physical education teachers, including 240 women and 264 men, who work in high schools and secondary schools in Adana and Mersin provinces. Results: The results showed that the teachers working in high schools were in the digital environment too much. At the same time, teachers stated that they did not feel stressed when they were in a lot of digital/virtual environments. Another result of the study is that the variables of daily internet usage time are partially effective on physical education teachers' digital burnout and perceptual fatigue levels. Conclusions: Nowadays, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, digitalization, which is used in educational institutions as well as in other sectors, has become a necessity. This proves that it is necessary to measure the perceptual fatigue tendency, which is the precursor of many organizational behavior variables.