scholarly journals How Contextual Constraints Shape Midcareer High School Teachers' Stress Management and Use of Digital Support Tools: Qualitative Study (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia B Manning ◽  
Ann Blandford ◽  
Julian Edbrooke-Childs ◽  
Paul Marshall
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Stress Management ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Workplace Stress ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Health Technologies

BACKGROUND Persistent psychosocial stress is endemic in the modern workplace, including among midcareer high school (secondary comprehensive) teachers in England. Understanding contextual influences on teachers' self-management of stress along with their use of digital health technologies could provide important insights into creating more usable and accessible stress support interventions. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the constraints on stress management and prevention among teachers in the school environment and how this shapes the use of digitally enabled stress management tools. METHODS Semistructured interviews were conducted with 14 teachers from southern England. The interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis. RESULTS Teachers were unanimous in their recognition of workplace stress, describing physical (such as isolation and scheduling) and cultural (such as stigma and individualism) aspects in the workplace context, which influence their ability to manage stress. A total of 12 participants engaged with technology to self-manage their physical or psychological well-being, with more than half of the participants using consumer wearables, but Web-based or smartphone apps were rarely accessed in school. However, digital well-being interventions recommended by school leaders could potentially be trusted and adopted. CONCLUSIONS The findings from this study bring together both the important cultural and physical contextual constraints on the ability of midcareer high school teachers to manage workplace stress. This study highlights correlates of stress and offers initial insight into how digital health interventions are currently being used to help with stress, both within and outside high schools. The findings add another step toward designing tailored digital stress support for teachers.

scholarly journals How Contextual Constraints Shape Midcareer High School Teachers' Stress Management and Use of Digital Support Tools: Qualitative Study

10.2196/15416 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. e15416
Author(s):  
Julia B Manning ◽  
Ann Blandford ◽  
Julian Edbrooke-Childs ◽  
Paul Marshall
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Stress Management ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Workplace Stress ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Health Technologies

Background Persistent psychosocial stress is endemic in the modern workplace, including among midcareer high school (secondary comprehensive) teachers in England. Understanding contextual influences on teachers' self-management of stress along with their use of digital health technologies could provide important insights into creating more usable and accessible stress support interventions. Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the constraints on stress management and prevention among teachers in the school environment and how this shapes the use of digitally enabled stress management tools. Methods Semistructured interviews were conducted with 14 teachers from southern England. The interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis. Results Teachers were unanimous in their recognition of workplace stress, describing physical (such as isolation and scheduling) and cultural (such as stigma and individualism) aspects in the workplace context, which influence their ability to manage stress. A total of 12 participants engaged with technology to self-manage their physical or psychological well-being, with more than half of the participants using consumer wearables, but Web-based or smartphone apps were rarely accessed in school. However, digital well-being interventions recommended by school leaders could potentially be trusted and adopted. Conclusions The findings from this study bring together both the important cultural and physical contextual constraints on the ability of midcareer high school teachers to manage workplace stress. This study highlights correlates of stress and offers initial insight into how digital health interventions are currently being used to help with stress, both within and outside high schools. The findings add another step toward designing tailored digital stress support for teachers.

scholarly journals Stress Management Amidst of the Covid-19 Pandemic of Public Junior High School Teachers in Selected High School of Aborlan North District

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 39-53
Author(s):  
Eliza Panis
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Stress Management ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Junior High School Teachers

This study was conducted from February 2021 to March 2021 to determine the stress management amidst the covid - 19 pandemics of the junior high school teachers in selected high schools of Aborlan North. The descriptive research design, specifically the survey method, was used in this study. Data were gathered through survey questionnaires. A total of 39 permanent teachers were enumerated from the selected high schools as the respondents of the study. The result showed that most of the respondents were married females in their middle age. They had been in the service for a mean of 11.3 years and almost three fourth (74.4%) of them were Secondary School Teacher I with a mean teaching load of 26.4 hours per week. The perceived sources of stress such as work, family, personal, and environmental were considered distinctly part of the respondents’ lives. The level of perceived stress of the respondents was noted to be “high stress”. The activities engaged in very often to manage stress by a majority of the respondents were walking, praying, attending church/religious service, planting, gardening, and watering plants, washing domes, cooking/baking, evaluating oneself, watching the news, watching entertainment programs, watching “teledramas”, “telenovelas”, listening to music, texting, going to the internet, and talking with a family member.

scholarly journals The effects of job crafting on subjective well-being amongst South African high school teachers

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Peral ◽  
Madelyn Geldenhuys
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
South African ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Psychological Meaningfulness ◽  
The Relationship

Orientation: Job crafting can result in a number of positive outcomes for teachers, such as increased meaningfulness and engagement at work. Increased work engagement and psychological meaningfulness may yield positive benefits for the practice of teaching, thus highlighting the pivotal role of job crafting.Research purpose: The study’s aim was to investigate the relationship between job crafting and subjective well-being amongst South African high school teachers. Subjective well-being comprises psychological meaningfulness and work engagement. The potential mediating effect that psychological meaningfulness had on this relationship was further explored.Motivation for the study: Being in a highly stressful occupation, teachers need to continuously find ways to craft their working practices in order to deal effectively with their job demands and to capitalise on their available job resources. Furthermore, South Africa’s current education system calls for serious proactive measures to be taken to improve and rectify the current status, such as job crafting.Research approach, design and method: A quantitative, cross-sectional survey design was used and administered to a sample of South African high school teachers situated in Gauteng, South Africa (N = 251).Main findings: A positive relationship was found between job crafting (increasing structural resources and challenging job demands) and work engagement. Furthermore, psychological meaningfulness mediated the relationship between job crafting and work engagement amongst the sampled high school teachers.Practical/managerial implications: Teachers who craft their work to better suit their preferences and needs will obtain greater meaning in their work and experience increased levels of work engagement. Training programmes and/or group-based interventions targeted around job crafting techniques may be particularly useful in the South African teaching context.Contribution/value-add: This study highlights the importance of job crafting to the well-being of teachers. It further contributes to the literature pertaining to job crafting and teaching specifically, as well as to the limited job crafting research that has been conducted in the South African context.

scholarly journals Study on Stress among Female High School Teachers of Haryana

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kavita Dua ◽  
Veena Sangwan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Specific Level ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
Female High School

Stress is unavoidable part of life due to increasing workload and complexities in daily life. Now-a-days the world is said to be world of achievement is a world of stress. Stress is anywhere and everywhere, weather it is in family, friends, business, institute or society. Right form birth to death, each and every individual exposed to stress. Each profession causes a specific level of stress. Teaching is also one of the stressful professions like many other professions.  In the educational process, the female teachers in teaching profession have increased. A female high school teacher is usually burdened with multiple roles and responsibilities. Female teachers are more vulnerable to stress as stress is caused by many factors including poor working conditions, scarcity of resources, heavy workloads and lack of administrative and family support system. As a result of these stressful aspects of teaching, stress can have negative effects on teacher’s physical, emotional, behavioral and mental well being. The main objective of this paper is to work out stress among female high school teachers of Haryana. Researcher has made all attempts to critically examine the studies conducted in the field of stress.

scholarly journals Predictors of psychological well-being among high school teachers: A cross-sectional study from Southern India

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 722-726
Author(s):  
Chinthana Rajesh ◽  
Lena Ashok ◽  
Chythra R Rao ◽  
Veena Kamath ◽  
Asha Kamath ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Self Acceptance

Background: Well-being is increasingly emerging as an important determinant of teacher effectiveness. Aim and objective: To assess the predictors of psychological well-being in Southern India. Settings and design: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 460 high school teachers from government and private schools in Udupi district. Methods and materials: Ryff’s psychological well-being scale (1989) was used. Statistical analysis used: Predictors were identified using logistic regression and p<0.05 was considered to be statistically significant Results: Autonomy, personal growth, positive relations, purpose in life and self-acceptance emerged as predictors of psychological well-being. Age predicted the subdomain of autonomy; number and age of children predicted environmental mastery; gender, monthly income and travelling time of teachers predicted the subdomain of self-acceptance among teachers. Conclusion: Teachers are an important resource whose psychological well-being has not received the attention it is due. An intervention program designed to fit their felt needs may be a step in the right direction.

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