Purpose: In recent decades, we have witnessed a growing deterioration in teachers’ health and wellbeing, which affects the quality of the teaching and learning process and the school as an organization. The school must provide a quality service that ensures student success. For this, it is essential that teachers feel healthy, satisfied, competent, and active in their work environment, maintaining wellbeing, en...
In recent years, the relationship between teachers’ health and organizational health in schools has attracted growing interest in educational research. The studies by Borralho et al. (2020) and Bagdziuniene et al. (2023) indicate that a positive organizational environment—characterized by a supportive climate, effective leadership, and strong interpersonal relationships—has a significant impact on teachers’ phy...
The aim of this quantitative research was to understand the mechanisms that intervene in the relationship between Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC) and work outcomes through the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model in a sample of Portuguese school teachers. 1481 participants, mostly female (78.9 %), completed a research protocol consisting of six self-report questionnaires and one sociodemographic and professiona...
A saúde organizacional em contexto escolar advém da forma como a escola funciona e de como esse funcionamento influencia a saúde e o bem-estar dos professores e, consequentemente, a qualidade do ensino. Este estudo pretendeu avaliar a saúde da organização escolar através da Escala de Perceção da Saúde Organizacional, numa amostra de 12104 professores portugueses dos ensinos básico e secundário. Os resultados da...
Introdução: As organizações modernas enfrentam inúmeros desafios, especialmente devido à deterioração das condições psicossociais de trabalho e ao surgimento de novas formas de trabalhar. Logo, uma organização que deseje criar vantagens competitivas e distintivas deve apostar no desenvolvimento dos recursos psicológicos, e.g., capital psicológico positivo (PsyCap), dos seus membros. Objetivos: Este estudo procu...
A saúde organizacional em contexto escolar advém da forma como a escola funciona e de como esse funcionamento influencia a saúde e o bem-estar dos professores e, consequentemente, a qualidade do ensino. Este estudo pretendeu avaliar a saúde da organização escolar através da Escala de Perceção da Saúde Organizacional, numa amostra de 12104 professores portugueses dos ensinos básico e secundário. Os resultados da...
Introdução: As organizações modernas enfrentam inúmeros desafios, especialmente devido à deterioração das condições psicossociais de trabalho e ao surgimento de novas formas de trabalhar. Logo, uma organização que deseje criar vantagens competitivas e distintivas deve apostar no desenvolvimento dos recursos psicológicos, e.g., capital psicológico positivo (PsyCap), dos seus membros. Objetivos: Este estudo procu...
Background In the last decades we have witnessed a growing deterioration of teachers’ health and well-being that affects in the quality of teaching and learning process and the school as an organization. Organizational and personal variables, related to positive psychology, have been little studied in research associated with teachers' health. Aims This study aimed to understand: (a) the direct relationships be...
The ebook contains several papers on the application of Psychology in the fields of Stress. The main areas of research and intervention in stress are here represented. The aim of this volume is to inform other scientists on the current developments of research on Multiple Approaches to the Study and Intervention in Stress in the universities of Evora and Leipzig and the developments of research on such topics i...
In this chapter we present a characterization of the levels of burnout in teachers of Portuguese public schools in function of personal and professional variables. A total of 9,269 teachers participated in the study, which makes up about 7% of the pre-school and school teachers from all regions of Portugal. Participants completed the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI; Maslach, Jackson & Leiter, 1996), which allows...