Date of Award

Summer 2024

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Education (EdD)

College

College of Education

Department

Department of Education

Primary Advisor

Dr. Kelly L. Hoskins

Second Advisor

Dr. Thomas J. Gollery

Third Advisor

Dr. Lisa A. Coscia

Abstract

Christian school administrators are faced with daily decision-making responsibilities regarding several aspects of a school. Before this research study, there was little research in the field of education with Christian school administrators as the sample population. The aim of this correlational study was to examine Florida Christian school administrators’ levels of personal accomplishment, depersonalization, emotional exhaustion and their relationship to self-efficacy and spiritual well-being. The study measured burnout among participants with the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educators Survey , self-efficacy with the General Self-Efficacy Scale, and selected items from the Spiritual Well-Being Scale. Christian school administrators (N = 53) provided response to an online survey. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and a linear regression model. The results of linear regression analysis displayed a significant negative correlation between self-efficacy and personal accomplishment. This finding is unique to this sample compared to previous findings. The two research questions regarding spiritual well-being among Christian school administrators could not be answered because the items used to measure spiritual well-being had a Cronbach’s alpha value of .00 in this sample.

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