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Estrés y estrategias de afrontamiento en docentes
Veras-de Jesús, Ivanova
| Fecha de publicación | Revista | DOI |
2020 |
Resumen
[English] In the Dominican Republic mental health within the educational system has received very scarce attention and, when studied, the focus of those researches where mainly in students, leaving aside the teachers. Many studies report the impact of teacher’s stress in the quality of education. The aim of this study is to evaluate the teacher stress level, it’s components and the coping strategies used by the teachers who were part of the study, also get to know the coping strategy most frequently reported by the participants, as well as explore possible intervening factors of teacher stress, and analyze if there is a correlation between teacher stress’s components and the coping strategies assessed. The scales “Escala de Estrés Docente ED-6” and “Brief COPE” were administered to a sample of 11 high school teachers. The data show that the most reported coping strategy was religion; also, results indicate a big influence of demotivation in these teachers’ mental health. Despite the constant efforts there’s still a long way to go in order to find solutions to mental health issues in the Dominican education system.