Teachers’ mental health becoming worse: The case of China

By Ruijuan Yang, Xuqun You, Yu Zhang, Ling Lian, Weige Feng. International Journal of Educational Development, 2019

89 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Abstract Education is one of the main pillars of sustainable development in a knowledge-based economy. Teachers' mental health is an essential factor affecting the quality of education. Using a cross-temporal meta-analysis, this paper reviewed 116 studies investigating the mental health status of Chinese teachers between 1998 and 2013. Results showed that there was a similar trend in mental health of different types of teachers and their mental health was generally deteriorating, especially in dimensions of hostility and psychoticism. This disconcerting finding may reflect a high-risk occupational stress on teachers. Teachers with poor mental health status may suffer from occupational stress, such as frequently changing regulatory framework, too many non-teaching tasks, overemphasis on competitions, excessively centralized control in teaching and low socioeconomic status. It is crucial to pay attention to teachers′ occupational stress and take effective measures to improve their mental health on a global scale.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/43ef2bfbaa8147ebee5be3afde04b5d123bce6bd