e-Pedagogium 2013, 13(2):76-85 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2013.020

Stress and Subjective Health of Teachers

Karel Paulík
prof. PhDr. Karel Paulík, CSc., Department of Psychology and Applied Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Reální 5, 701 03 Ostrava, Czech Republic, E-mail: paulik@osu.cz

This article focuses on the psychological contexts of subjective health among teachers in relation to their perception and evaluation of work-related stress in the teaching profession. The research was carried out on a sample of teachers from Czech and Slovak primary schools (.N = 2501) during 2009-2011 using the subjective perception methodology.
The aim of the article is to consider the connections between subjective evaluation of stress and health among teachers, and between subjective and objective indicators of individuals' state of health.
The results indicate that there exist negative and statistically significant (1% level) but weak (lower than -0.2) correlations between perceptions of work-related stress and subjective health. This suggests that this relationship is probably mediated by other variables; in our research these were personality factors from the Big Five model (neuroticism and extraversion) and the variables optimism, hardiness and sense of coherence.
The connection between subjective and objective health is illustrated by correlation coefficients whose values were statistically significant (1 %) yet likewise weak (around 0.2); this suggests that other influences are also likely to be involved.

Keywords: Subjective health, Big Five, stress, cognitive appraisal, optimism, sense of coherence

Published: April 1, 2013  Show citation

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Paulík, K. (2013). Stress and Subjective Health of Teachers. e-Pedagogium, 13(2), 76-85. doi: 10.5507/epd.2013.020
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