Özet:

The burnout which is one of the issues coming to the fore in recent years, which expressed as emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and feel personal accomplishment and which can be resulted from individual / organizational factors is especially more common in certain professions. It can be said that burnout is an important issue for academicianship which required spend a lot of time with students, conduct appropriate quantity and quality researches in a particular time and face to face communication. Individual demographic characteristics such as gender, age, marital status and number of children affects burnout levels of the person. In this direction, it was aimed to determine that whether or not, there is a significant relation between burnout level of the academics and some demographic variables such as age and seniority and there is a significant difference in burnout level of the academics according to some demographic variables and occupational demographic variables such as number of publication or weekly course hours in this work. At the end of the research done on 417 academics working in public and foundation universities in Istanbul, it was determined that there is a significant and negative relation between burnout level of the academics and age and between burnout level of the academics and seniority. Also it was determined that there is a significant difference in burnout level of the academics according to marital status, academic title, number of children, weekly course hours, seniority in existing university, work experience abroad and total monthly household income.

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