Abstract: This article examines the question associated with the occupational burnout phenomenon among the city bus drivers of Kraków. The main topic of this research is included into the content of the question: are there signs of the occupational burnout syndrome among the polled city bus drivers? The following specific problems were being formulated:


Do the drivers show signs of emotional and physical exhaustion?


Do the drivers show sign of depersonalization?


Do the drivers show the signs of dissatisfaction with their job?


The additional question was formulated in the following way: do the drivers have feeling that they carry a tremendous responsibility for life and health of other people? The authors comprised an original survey based on the literature on this matter, as well as TEDIUM test. The survey consists of 21 close-end questions with regards to three dimensions of occupational burnout: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, lack of the feeling of satisfaction with their job. The conclusion demonstrates that the polled drivers do not explicit the features of job burnout syndrome, although expressively declare the feeling of immense responsibility for the life and health of other people. However, the attention should be paid to the degree of depersonalization, in which 2 out 5 indexes received excessive results (stressed passengers, substantive interpretation of passengers).

Abstract: This paper concerns social maladjustment youth and his personality and situational correlates. The paper refers to Robert Agnew’s general strain theory. According to Agnew, strain theory focuses on negative relationships with others: that is, relationships in with others do not treat the individual as he or she would like to be treated. The main objective of the empirical research is to understand the relationship between social maladjustment and the sense of strain, aggression, self-efficacy in the group of pupils. An additional goal is to analyze the relationship between the sense of strain, self-efficacy and the structure of the aggressiveness of the respondents. The study was conducted in March 2013. The hypotheses were tested on 57 pupils. The results confirmed most of the assumed relationships between variables.