Comparative study on burnout among higher education professors in Portugal and Brazil during COVID-19

• Author(s): Pinto, Ana ; Carvalho, Carla ; Rodriguez, Susana ; Simões, Ana ; Carvalhais, Carlos ; Gonçalves, Fernando ; Santos, Joana
• Date: 2023
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/24441
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Subject(s): Professors; Burnout; Strategies of coping; Portugal; Brazil
• Document Type: Conference object
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): REPOSITÓRIO P.PORTO

Description

The global pandemic context experienced in recent years has exacerbated the reality that the work environment does not always offer the necessary conditions for task completion. For example, in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), all over the world, were closing, to safeguard the health of professors, students, and education professionals had to change teaching methods, namely, remote teaching, involving new technologies. Faced with unprecedented stress situations, professors, students, and families have employed various coping and resilience strategies throughout the confinement period.