The relationship between job burnout and job satisfaction among support staff at Jabatan Hutan Sarawak / Amirah Imanina Sadun

The main purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between job burnout and job satisfaction among support staffs at Forest Department Kuching in Sarawak. The instrument that was used to collect the data was questionnaire. This study was correlational research. 100 sets of questionnaire were distributed to the respondents personally with return rate of 70%. The data was analysed using Statistical Package for Social Science Software (SPSS) version 20.0. Pearson correlation was performed on the data in order to determine whether there is a relationship between both variables. The correlation values show that low personal achievement has strong relationship with job satisfaction. There is a significant strong positive and high correlation (r=.518, p<0.01) between job satisfaction and low personal achievement. The values also show that there is a significant positive and medium relationship between job satisfaction with emotional and physical factors (r=-.438, p<0.01). Researcher recommends that the future research should be expended to other location other than Kuching only.