COVID-19 stress and teachers well-being: the mediating role of sense of coherence and resilience

• Girum Tareke Zewude ^[1] ; Sisay Demissew Beyene ^[3] ; Belayneh Taye ^[4] ; Fatiha Sadouki ^[1] ; Maria Hercz ^[2]
  1. [1] University of Szeged

     University of Szeged

     Hungría

     
  2. [2] Eötvös Loránd University

     Eötvös Loránd University

     Hungría

     
  3. [3] Arsi University
  4. [4] Bahirdar University

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• Localización: EJIHPE: European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, ISSN 2174-8144, ISSN-e 2254-9625, Vol. 13, Nº. 1, 2023, págs. 1-22
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.3390/ejihpe13010001
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  • The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted many professions with short-, medium-, and long-term consequences. Hence, this study examined the mediating role of sense of coherence (SOC) and resilience in the relation to COVID-19 stress and teachers’ well-being (TWB).

    It recruited 836 teachers from Ethiopia’s higher-education institutions, of which 630 (75.4%) were men and 206 (24.6%) were women, with a mean age of 32.81 years and a standard deviation of 6.42.

    Findings showed that COVID-19 stress negatively predicted SOC, resilience, and TWB and that SOC and resilience positively predicted TWB. It was concluded that SOC and resilience, both together and separately, mediated the relation between COVID-19 stress and TWB. These results were discussed alongside relevant literature, and the study is found to be valuable for practitioners and researchers who seek to improve well-being using SOC and resilience as resources across teaching professions.

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