Stressors, personality and wellbeing among language teachers
By P. Macintyre, Jessica Ross, Kyle Talbot, Sarah Mercer, T. Gregersen, Claire Ann Banga. System (Linköping), 2019
193 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Abstract Teaching foreign/second languages is an inherently stressful occupation, with levels of stress increasing for educators across the globe. Given that language teachers’ perceptions of stress and sense of wellbeing are central to their ability to teach well, it is surprising that this topic has received so little research attention to date. This study examines correlations among personality, wellbeing and stress among an international sample of language teachers. As the first part of a larger study, measures of the big five personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness), the PERMA wellbeing framework (positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishments), and two types of stressors (chronic stressors, and life events/daily hassles) were gathered via eMoodie, a specially designed smartphone app. Results show that both personality and stress are consistently correlated with teacher wellbeing. However, personality and stress were not found to correlate with each other. Results point to the need to better understand both the sources of stress and the positive uplifts experienced by teachers as they contribute to wellbeing. Given the important role(s) played by teachers, it is imperative that research contributes to a better understanding of how language teachers can flourish in their profession.
Subfields: Social Psychology
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/0b4c88e0f730ecd22c6703b6714b88ec05440c8b
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Social Psychology
- Sarah Mercer
- P. Macintyre
- T. Gregersen
- Kyle Talbot
- Claire Ann Banga
- Jean–Marc Dewaele
- Chengchen Li
- Lawrence Jun Zhang
Citations in the corpus
- The wellbeing of language teachers in the private sector: An ecological perspective (2020, methodology): “One example of a eudemonic approach is the PERMA model of flourishing proposed by Seligman (2011), which has been employed in a number of studies in respect to teachers (e.g. Goodman et al., 2018; Kern et al. 2015; MacIntyre et al., 2019).”
- Understanding language teacher wellbeing: An ESM study of daily stressors and uplifts (2020, background): “Given the findings in the MacIntyre et al. (2019) study, there is a suggestion that these personal individual trait differences could be one explanatory factor for understanding differences in overall wellbeing scores.”