Teaching is a stressful profession given teachers' competing demands. Due to COVID-19, teachers struggle to balance maintaining a safe classroom environment and the traditional child-directed focus of early education. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of an adaptation of Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation…

The ability to manage demands and resources particular to the postgraduate experience influences both the individual's performance and mental health, and, when it is limited or absent, might lead to extreme situations, such as suicide attempts. The present study sought support on the job demands-resources to explain the relationship between…

This study investigated the relation between teachers' occupational well-being and the quality of teacher-student interactions in lower secondary schools in Finland. Teachers (N = 48) self-rated their occupational well-being in terms of engagement, stress, job demands, and emotional exhaustion. Teacher-student interactions in classrooms were…

Teacher stress has a well-established research base, with similar sources of occupational stress reported by teachers at all grade levels. This study examined a proximal source of stress--the student--teacher relationship--as a predictor of stress in preschool teachers. This study is unique in its focus on "teaching" stress, which occurs…

The purpose of this study was to obtain greater insight into the experiences of Black women who work as full-time faculty at two and four-year colleges and universities. This phenomenological qualitative study investigated the formal and informal interactions that full-time Black female faculty have with colleagues and students alike.…

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.…

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…

Student violence directed at school educators appears to be increasing, thus it is important to identify practical strategies that educators use to prevent and cope with occupational violence. This observational study surveyed 369 government primary school staff in the Australian Capital Territory. Sixty per cent of respondents reported abusive…

Due to the prevalence of cases of increased occupational stress and its effects on teachers' performance and mental health in particular education institutions, the importance of assessing stress levels and the factors most likely to determine it has been highlighted. Recognizing the significance of exceptional education instructors' psychological…

Purpose: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of secondary traumatic stress (STS) among elementary teachers from Title I schools. This study sought to understand teachers' perceptions of STS and the personal, behavioral, and environmental factors that influence their impact. Methodology: This study…

Nationwide, the teacher shortage and turnover concerns are an ongoing, ever-growing issue in public education. Ingersoll and Perda (2009) define turnover as the "migration of teachers from one school district to another" (p. 8). In 2016, the nationwide report on teacher retention showed that nearly half a million teachers will leave…

In this study, I examined the role of work stress on urban, public school K-12 teachers who left or considered leaving their careers within the last two years due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Grounded in the theoretical framework of self- determination theory, which illustrates three basic human needs for professional vitality…

The purpose of the study was to analyze faculty stress with three interrelated parts. First, the study examined the relationship between work engagement, stress factors, stress outcomes, and faculty characteristics. Next, the study analyzed the relationship between students' perception of faculty stress, faculty teaching effectiveness, class size,…

Effective professional development (PD) interventions that promote high quality teacher-child interactions are important mechanisms to support social-emotional and cognitive development in early childhood. One PD intervention that has shown to be effective is MyTeachingPartner (MTP); however, previous research has suggested that both teacher and…

This study was conducted to determine the relationship and the effect of school leaders' authentic leadership towards teachers' job stress. A cross-sectional quantitative approach using a questionnaire has been used on 330 teachers from 143 excellent performance primary schools in the Eastern part of Peninsular Malaysia. Authentic Leadership…