2023 Volume 26 Issue 2 Pages 181-188
[Purpose]
Recently, there has been an ongoing debate on the nature of activities that consider the physical and mental strain on teachers in school-based extracurricular activities. The distress for club activity instruction is related to burnout. This background is related to the presence or absence of experience in the club activity category in which they are advising. However, a longitudinal study needs to be conducted, considering the cultural club advisory teachers and their sense of fulfillment in teaching club activities. This study aimed to examine the rewarding and distress toward club activity coaching and its relationship to burnout, considering the type of club activity and discipline experience.
[Methods]
Participants were 137 teachers in school-based extracurricular（athletic club: 38 males and 26 females; cultural club: 29 males and 44 females）programs. A scale to measure the reward and distress scale for teachers in school-based extracurricular activities and burnout was used. Furthermore, burnout was examined approximately six months later.
[Results]
First, in the analysis of variance for the two factors, athletic clubs scored higher than cultural clubs in the distress for club activity instruction. Furthermore, differences in scale scores were observed depending on the advisory teacher's experience in the discipline. Specifically, the professional instruction group had the highest scores for rewarding with club activity instruction. The no-experience group scored higher than the professional-experience and personal-experience groups in terms of distress and burnout. Next, results of the simultaneous multi-population analysis revealed differences in the relationship between the rewarding and distress toward club activity coaching and burnout, depending on whether the participants had experience in the discipline or not.
[Discussion/Conclusion]
The results showed that being an advisor for both athletic and cultural clubs did not increase the physical and mental burden of club activities, and that the aspect of this burden varied depending on whether the student had experience in the discipline or not. However, the risk of burnout is high when taking charge of a club advisor who has no experience in the discipline. After integrating the results of this study with the findings of previous studies, we discuss how such club activity should be managed., Consequently, increasing opportunities for club activity guidance will be rewarding and decreasing opportunities for club activity advisory teachers to feel burdened will contribute to reducing their mental and physical burden.
