Arbia, G.; Carbone, A.; Stanzione, I.; Szpunar, G. The Work-Related Stress and Well-Being of Teachers—An Exploratory Study within Primary Schools in Italy. Educ. Sci.2023, 13, 505.
Arbia, G.; Carbone, A.; Stanzione, I.; Szpunar, G. The Work-Related Stress and Well-Being of Teachers—An Exploratory Study within Primary Schools in Italy. Educ. Sci. 2023, 13, 505.
Arbia, G.; Carbone, A.; Stanzione, I.; Szpunar, G. The Work-Related Stress and Well-Being of Teachers—An Exploratory Study within Primary Schools in Italy. Educ. Sci.2023, 13, 505.
Arbia, G.; Carbone, A.; Stanzione, I.; Szpunar, G. The Work-Related Stress and Well-Being of Teachers—An Exploratory Study within Primary Schools in Italy. Educ. Sci. 2023, 13, 505.
Abstract
This study analyses key aspects of the professional life of primary school teachers in a southern European context. In the social changes of last two decades profoundly impacted the well-being of teachers putting a strain on their ability to adapt to sometimes unfair working conditions. For this purpose twenty teachers (M = 38.85; DS = 9.17) were interviewed from different areas of Italy, data were analyzed using the Grounded Theory Method. Through data analysis were summa-rize and emphasize eight core themes. The results show the effects of a gradual impoverishment of the recognition of the role of teacher, highlighting the difficulty for teachers of renegotiating more flexible workload assessments and of reinforcing psycho-emotional skills for the development of a teaching methodology attentive to the psycho-emotional needs of pupils. Schools emerge as a rigid working context, in which a competent organizational function is often absent. Practical psychological implications are discussed.
Keywords
work-related stress; burnout; well-being; teachers; self-efficacy; psychological interrvention; qualitative research
Subject
Social Sciences, Psychology
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