Post-Traumatic Distress and Burnout Among Chinese School Teachers: The Mediating Role of Forgiveness
PurposeTeachers’ 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 whet...
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| description | PurposeTeachers’ 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.MethodsTwo 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.ResultsStructured 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.ConclusionTo 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 | doaj.art-79e8b7a4978f4fd686c4edcac954659d2022-12-21T19:57:33ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782021-07-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.642926642926Post-Traumatic Distress and Burnout Among Chinese School Teachers: The Mediating Role of ForgivenessYabing Wang0Man Cheung Chung1Siqi Fang2School of English Education, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, ChinaFaculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ChinaDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ChinaPurposeTeachers’ 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.MethodsTwo 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.ResultsStructured 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.ConclusionTo 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.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.642926/fullPTSDpsychiatric co-morbidityburnoutforgivenesswork-related stressors |
| spellingShingle | Yabing Wang Man Cheung Chung Siqi Fang Post-Traumatic Distress and Burnout Among Chinese School Teachers: The Mediating Role of Forgiveness Frontiers in Psychology PTSD psychiatric co-morbidity burnout forgiveness work-related stressors |
| title | Post-Traumatic Distress and Burnout Among Chinese School Teachers: The Mediating Role of Forgiveness |
| title_full | Post-Traumatic Distress and Burnout Among Chinese School Teachers: The Mediating Role of Forgiveness |
| title_fullStr | Post-Traumatic Distress and Burnout Among Chinese School Teachers: The Mediating Role of Forgiveness |
| title_full_unstemmed | Post-Traumatic Distress and Burnout Among Chinese School Teachers: The Mediating Role of Forgiveness |
| 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 |
| topic | PTSD psychiatric co-morbidity burnout forgiveness work-related stressors |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.642926/full |
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