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Teachers’ coping strategies regarding the pandemic: Connections with fear of COVID-19 and teachers’ mental wellbeing

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Bukvić Branković, Lidija
Popović-Ćitić, Branislava
Stojanović, Marija
Kovačević-Lepojević, Marina
Paraušić, Ana
Mijatović, Luka
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Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have put the schools and their staff in the frontlines, creating a long list of new stressors for teachers to deal with. Respecting the challenges of pandemic education, a group of researchers conducted a survey on a sample of 817 elementary school teachers with the aim of assessing teachers’ coping strategies regarding the pandemic and their connections to fear of COVID-19 and their mental wellbeing. Data were collected during April and May 2021, through an online questionnaire. Coping strategies were measured with Brief-COPE, consisting of 14 scales, covering a wide range of coping strategies that can be grouped into approach strategies – those that actively work to change the stressor or accept its presence in one’s life and avoidant coping strategies – that tend toward more dysfunctional responses such as denial, distraction, or substance use. Fear of COVID-19 Scale and Warwick-Edinburg Mental Well-being Scale were also used. Research results show... that teachers use more actively approach strategies (M = 37.52, SD = 6.01), than avoidant strategies (M = 23.41, SD = 4.75) (t(757) = 64.73, p = .000). Fear of COVID-19 correlates positively with both clusters, but more significantly with avoidance strategies (r = .46, p < .001) than approach strategies (r = .25, p < .001). Teachers’ mental wellbeing correlates mildly positively (r = .14, p < .001) with approach strategies, but correlates moderately negatively with avoidant strategies (r = -.31, p < .001). These results confirm the negative correlations between avoidant strategies and teachers’ mental wellbeing, as well as its stronger connection with the fear of COVID-19, suggesting that teachers’ tend to choose avoidant strategies if they are more negatively influenced by the pandemic.

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coping strategies / teachers / fear of COVID-19 / mental wellbeing / pandemic education
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18th international conference Days of Applied Psychology – Current challenges in psychological science, 2022, 120-121
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  • University of Niš, Faculty of Philosophy

ISBN: 978-86-7379-605-5

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https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rfasper_4885
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http://rfasper.fasper.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4885
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Bukvić Branković, L., Popović-Ćitić, B., Stojanović, M., Kovačević-Lepojević, M., Paraušić, A.,& Mijatović, L.. (2022). Teachers’ coping strategies regarding the pandemic: Connections with fear of COVID-19 and teachers’ mental wellbeing. in 18th international conference Days of Applied Psychology – Current challenges in psychological science
University of Niš, Faculty of Philosophy., 120-121.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rfasper_4885
Bukvić Branković L, Popović-Ćitić B, Stojanović M, Kovačević-Lepojević M, Paraušić A, Mijatović L. Teachers’ coping strategies regarding the pandemic: Connections with fear of COVID-19 and teachers’ mental wellbeing. in 18th international conference Days of Applied Psychology – Current challenges in psychological science. 2022;:120-121.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rfasper_4885 .
Bukvić Branković, Lidija, Popović-Ćitić, Branislava, Stojanović, Marija, Kovačević-Lepojević, Marina, Paraušić, Ana, Mijatović, Luka, "Teachers’ coping strategies regarding the pandemic: Connections with fear of COVID-19 and teachers’ mental wellbeing" in 18th international conference Days of Applied Psychology – Current challenges in psychological science (2022):120-121,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rfasper_4885 .

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