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Emotional Exhaustion in German Preschool Teachers: The Role of Personal, Structural, and Social Conditions at the Workplace
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Mareike Trauernicht; Yvonne Anders; Elisa Oppermann; Uta Klusmann – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2025
Research has demonstrated that preschool teachers are particularly prone to develop burnout symptoms, such as emotional exhaustion. However, which workplace conditions are particularly related to burnout symptoms in preschool teachers remains widely unknown. Hence, this study aims to disentangle personal characteristics (e.g. educational degree,…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Work Attitudes, Work Environment, Foreign Countries
"You Can Hold Two Things to Be True at the Same Time": Duality in ECE Teachers' Emotional Experiences during COVID-19
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Sorrells, Cassie; Madrid Akpovo, Samara – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2022
This study represents a qualitative exploration of the emotional experiences of early care and education (ECE) teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research questions consisted of the following: (1) "What were the emotional experiences of ECE teachers during COVID-19?" (2) "How do ECE teachers understand, contextualize, and/or…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, White Teachers, Females, COVID-19
To Stay or to Leave: Factors Shaping Early Childhood Teachers' Turnover and Retention Decisions
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Schaack, Diana D.; Donovan, Courtney V.; Adejumo, Tobiloba; Ortega, Mari – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2022
This qualitative study sought to understand whether there were difference in how early childhood education (ECE) teachers who stayed in or left their jobs interpreted their job demands and resources. It also sought to understand factors that shaped teachers' turnover and retention decisions. Twenty-six teachers who worked in subsidized ECE…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover, Influences