A Correlational Predictive Study of Teacher Well-Being and Professional Success in Foreign Language Student Teachers
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Well-being Teacher education Primary education Foreign languages
Date
2022-05-18Referencia bibliográfica
Cardoso-Pulido, M.J.; Guijarro-Ojeda, J.R.; Pérez-Valverde, C. A Correlational Predictive Study of TeacherWell-Being and Professional Success in Foreign Language Student Teachers. Mathematics 2022, 10, 1720. [https://doi.org/10.3390/math10101720]
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Spanish Government EDU2013-44890-PAbstract
The teaching profession has an important emotional burden that, together with the erosion
of different elements that compose it from continuous educational reform to the bad behavior
and demotivation of students has led to many teachers experiencing physical and psychological
illness or leaving the profession. Nevertheless, studies and interventions in this regard are still
insufficient in the Spanish context. This situation also exponentially affects pre-service teachers,
which according to numerous studies is the stage during which the diminishing of teacher well-being
begins and consolidates. Within this panorama, with this study the authors pursue to determine
which dimensions of teacher well-being are capable of predicting the professional success of 88 preservice
primary education teachers who specialize in a foreign language so that they can be addressed
in the training process. To this end, an ex post facto study was carried out correlating the following
instruments: the Teacher Distress Questionnaire, the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire and the
Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educators Survey with an adaptation of the Rueda de la vida escolar sobre
el éxito y la satisfacción laboral del docente (Wheel of school life on teacher success and job satisfaction).
Multiple linear regression revealed that of all the variables studied for teacher well-being (intrinsic
motivation, expectations about good professional performance, professional distress, professional
exhaustion, irrational beliefs, emotional intelligence and burnout) only emotional intelligence and
intrinsic motivation have the ability to predict the success of teachers in training in their future
professional performance. This result is of paramount importance for reconsidering the training
that teachers receive during their university stage, which currently and substantially prioritizes the
cognitive component over psychosocial and emotional components.