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Elomaa, Mailis; Eskelä-Haapanen, Sirpa; Pakarinen, Eija; Halttunen, Leena; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
The present study aimed to investigate elementary school principals' self-reported causes of work-related stress, their coping strategies to deal with stress and the support they need for their leadership. Seventy-six principals filled in the questionnaire, which included open-ended questions. Qualitative content analysis was used to analyse the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Principals, Stress Variables
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Penttinen, Viola; Pakarinen, Eija; von Suchodoletz, Antje; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research Findings: The aim of this study was to examine associations between two aspects of teachers' occupational well-being, i.e., teaching-related stress and work engagement, and the quality of teacher-child interactions in Finnish kindergarten classrooms. Participants were 47 kindergarten teachers with their classrooms of 6-year-old children.…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Well Being, Teacher Student Relationship
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Penttinen, Viola; Pakarinen, Eija; von Suchodoletz, Antje; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The aim of the present study was to identify profiles of kindergarten teachers based on the observed quality of interactions with the children in their classrooms and to explore possible differences between the profiles in terms of teachers' occupational well-being and teacher and classroom characteristics. Participants were 54…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Teacher Student Relationship, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers