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Psychological health and life satisfaction of portuguese teachers
| datacite.subject.fos | Ciências Sociais::Psicologia | |
| datacite.subject.sdg | 03:Saúde de Qualidade | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tomé, Gina | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rodrigues, Nuno | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gaspar de Matos, Margarida | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-13T14:55:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-11-13T14:55:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-06-14 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Background: In Portugal, teachers have constantly sought better working conditions in order to improve their mental health, which can result in demotivation and personal and professional exhaustion. Methods: A total of 1454 national public school teachers participated in this study, 17.4% (n = 253) male, aged between 22 and 66 years old (M = 51.4, SD = 7.5). The instrument used included questions concerning sociodemographic data (gender, years of teaching experience, age, length of service), a life satisfaction scale, WHO-5/quality of life perception, the physical and psychological symptoms scale-HBSC, depression, stress, and the anxiety scale-DASS-21. It also included questions about the school environment: relationship with the principal, and school atmosphere. Results: Four groups of teachers were created for the statistical analyses: No Life Satisfied/No Symptoms; Life Satisfied/No Symptoms; No Life Satisfied/With Symptoms; and Life Satisfied/With Symptoms. The results revealed that male teachers showed higher percentages for the following groups: No Life Satisfied/No Symptoms (χ2 = 17.223(3), p ≤ 0.001, 20.2%), Life Satisfied/No Symptoms (χ2 = 17.223(3), p ≤ 0.001, 43.3%) and No Life Satisfied/With Symptoms (χ2 = 17.223(3), p ≤ 0.001, 23.9%). Conclusions: The results made it possible to identify a profile of teachers who are more likely to develop mental health problems and psychological distress: those who have lower perceived life satisfaction and more psychological symptoms, which are associated with a low perception of quality of life, a worse relationship with principals and a worse perception of the quality of the school environment; this situation seems to be even worse among female teachers. | eng |
| dc.identifier.citation | Tomé, G., Rodrigues, N., & Matos, M. G. de. (2024). Psychological health and life satisfaction of portuguese teachers. Future (2813-2882), 2(2), 80–91. https://doi.org/10.3390/future2020007 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/future2020007 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2813-2882 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/13658 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | |
| dc.publisher | MDPI AG | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Future | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Teachers’ well-being | |
| dc.subject | Teachers’ mental health | |
| dc.subject | Teachers’ life satisfaction | |
| dc.title | Psychological health and life satisfaction of portuguese teachers | por |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 91 | |
| oaire.citation.issue | 2 | |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 80 | |
| oaire.citation.title | Future | |
| oaire.citation.volume | 2 | |
| oaire.version | http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 | |
| person.familyName | Gaspar de Matos | |
| person.givenName | Margarida | |
| person.identifier | H-3824-2012 | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | C319-629F-67E9 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0003-2114-2350 | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 15076750500 | |
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