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Post-Traumatic Distress and Burnout Among Chinese School Teachers: The Mediating Role of Forgiveness

PURPOSE: Teachers’ mental health is concerning due to high stress at work. Its association with job-related stressors has been well-documented. Little is known; however, about how traumatic life events and trauma reactions might contribute to their psychological distress. This paper is to explore wh...

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Autores principales: Wang, Yabing, Chung, Man Cheung, Fang, Siqi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8362850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34393882
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.642926
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Chung, Man Cheung
Fang, Siqi
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description PURPOSE: Teachers’ mental health is concerning due to high stress at work. Its association with job-related stressors has been well-documented. Little is known; however, about how traumatic life events and trauma reactions might contribute to their psychological distress. This paper is to explore whether Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following past traumatic event would predict burnout and psychiatric co-morbidity among Chinese k-12 school teachers and whether this prediction would be mediated by forgiveness after controlling for work-related factors. METHODS: Two hundred and seventy-nine Chinese teachers (F = 223, M = 56) from primary and secondary schools completed demographic information, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5), Heartland Forgiveness Scale (HFS), General Health Questionnaire-28 (GHQ-28), Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educator’s Survey (MBI-ES), and a series of measures assessing work-related factors. RESULTS: Structured equation modeling (SEM) showed that after controlling for work-related factors, PTSD following past trauma was positively associated with burnout and general psychological problems but negatively associated with levels of forgiveness. Forgiveness carried the impact of PTSD onto burnout rather than general psychological distress. CONCLUSION: To conclude, regardless of the level of stress experienced from working in school, primary and secondary teachers with PTSD from past trauma found it more difficult forgiving which in turn could affect their levels of burnout.
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spelling pubmed-83628502021-08-14 Post-Traumatic Distress and Burnout Among Chinese School Teachers: The Mediating Role of Forgiveness Wang, Yabing Chung, Man Cheung Fang, Siqi Front Psychol Psychology PURPOSE: Teachers’ mental health is concerning due to high stress at work. Its association with job-related stressors has been well-documented. Little is known; however, about how traumatic life events and trauma reactions might contribute to their psychological distress. This paper is to explore whether Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following past traumatic event would predict burnout and psychiatric co-morbidity among Chinese k-12 school teachers and whether this prediction would be mediated by forgiveness after controlling for work-related factors. METHODS: Two hundred and seventy-nine Chinese teachers (F = 223, M = 56) from primary and secondary schools completed demographic information, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5), Heartland Forgiveness Scale (HFS), General Health Questionnaire-28 (GHQ-28), Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educator’s Survey (MBI-ES), and a series of measures assessing work-related factors. RESULTS: Structured equation modeling (SEM) showed that after controlling for work-related factors, PTSD following past trauma was positively associated with burnout and general psychological problems but negatively associated with levels of forgiveness. Forgiveness carried the impact of PTSD onto burnout rather than general psychological distress. CONCLUSION: To conclude, regardless of the level of stress experienced from working in school, primary and secondary teachers with PTSD from past trauma found it more difficult forgiving which in turn could affect their levels of burnout. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8362850/ /pubmed/34393882 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.642926 Text en Copyright © 2021 Wang, Chung and Fang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_short Post-Traumatic Distress and Burnout Among Chinese School Teachers: The Mediating Role of Forgiveness
title_sort post-traumatic distress and burnout among chinese school teachers: the mediating role of forgiveness
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8362850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34393882
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.642926
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