The Effect of Chinese Special Education Teachers’ Competence on Their Occupational Well-Being: The Mediating Effect of Resilience

Xu, Na; Chen, Peng; Lang, Rui; Kong, Lingling; Qu, Haiying

doi:10.1080/1034912x.2021.1975263

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“…The recent study by Xu et al (2023) is most aligned with the OECD teacher wellbeing model, with wellbeing defined as a concept encompassing emotions, thoughts, intrinsic and extrinsic rewards, behaviours, and self-assessed physical and mental health. This was the only study that employed a wellbeing framework specifically addressing impacts of physical and mental health on SETWB.…”

Section: Special Education Teacher Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Case for Special Education Teacher Wellbeing: A Multidimensional Review of the Evidence and Future Directions

Sawatske,

Leonard,

Harris

et al. 2024

Australas. j. spec. incl. educ.

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Extant studies of special education teacher wellbeing often focus on negative aspects, such as stress, burnout and the consequent attrition from teaching, the latter occurring with increasing frequency in the field of special education. In this article, the authors use the OECD teacher wellbeing framework to conceptualise special education teacher wellbeing as a positive multidimensional construct, making the case for uncoupling special education teacher wellbeing from mainstream teacher wellbeing given the almost paradigmatic difference in roles, responsibilities, and educational context within Australian schools. The (limited) literature reveals numerous possibilities for supporting and promoting special education teacher wellbeing with salient wellbeing-promoting factors, such as teacher self-efficacy, connectedness, professional development, and class structure. Further empirical studies harnessing these factors will help improve working conditions and the wellbeing of special education teachers.

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Section: Special Education Teacher Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Case for Special Education Teacher Wellbeing: A Multidimensional Review of the Evidence and Future Directions

Sawatske,

Leonard,

Harris

et al. 2024

Australas. j. spec. incl. educ.

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“…Previous studies have confirmed that the occupational well-being of special education teachers was lower than that of mainstream school teachers in China ( Zhao and Huang, 2015 ). To address this problem, some researchers have explored the protective factors of special education teachers’ occupational well-being ( Wu et al, 2020 ; Xu et al, 2021 ), such as PsyCap, work engagement and so on ( Wang, 2017 ; Wen and Zhang, 2020 ).…”

Section: Occupational Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological Capital and Occupational Well-Being: Mediating Effects of Work Engagement Among Chinese Special Education Teachers

Guo

Wang²,

Liu³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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This study examines whether psychological capital (PsyCap) indirectly predicts occupational well-being among Chinese special education teachers through work engagement. In total, 615 Chinese special education teachers (female = 567) completed the Psychological Capital Questionnaire, the Special Education Teachers’ Occupational Well-Being Questionnaire, and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale. The results indicated that PsyCap was positively correlated with occupational well-being and work engagement. Furthermore, work engagement mediated the influence of PsyCap on occupational well-being. Notably, the multiple mediation model indicated that the indirect effects of PsyCap on occupational well-being were mainly due to dedication and absorption. The study’s results illustrate the association between PsyCap, work engagement, and occupational well-being, which may help educational administrators and social workers assist with special education and special education teachers develop and maintain good working conditions.

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“…A person with high resilience potentially possesses more psychological energy and managing skills (Brown et al, 2020 ) to enhance his/her professionalism (George et al, 2021 ) toward own career despite being challenged by various adversities, which can help the individual to maintain career mission, further promoting calling. Moreover, resilience contributes to the sustainable development of competence by learning from failure in the professional fields, which causes increased confidence in the workplace for a person, then preventing the threat of calling (Xu et al, 2021 ).…”

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Can resilience promote calling among Chinese nurses in intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic? The mediating role of thriving at work and moderating role of ethical leadership

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BackgroundNurses working in the intensive care unit (ICU) clung tenaciously to their job during the COVID-19 pandemic in spite of enduring stressed psychological and physical effects as a result of providing nursing care for the infected patients, which indicates that they possessed a high degree of professionalism and career calling. The aim of this study was to explain the associations between resilience, thriving at work, and ethical leadership influencing the calling of ICU nurses.MethodsFrom December 2020 to January 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, a cross-sectional survey of 15 provinces in China was conducted using an online questionnaire. A total of 340 ICU nurses (effective response rate: 64.89%) completed sufficient responses to be used in the study. Sociodemographic factors, job demographic factors, resilience, calling, thriving at work, and ethical leadership were assessed using the questionnaire. General linear modeling (GLM), hierarchical linear regression (HLR) analysis, and generalized additive model (GAM) were performed to examine all the considered research hypotheses.ResultsResilience was positively and significantly associated with calling. Moreover, thriving at work partially mediated the relationship between resilience and calling. The indirect effect of resilience on calling was 0.204 (p < 0.0001), and the direct effect of resilience on calling through thriving at work was 0.215 (p < 0.0001). The total effect of resilience on calling was 0.419 (p < 0.0001). In addition, ethical leadership played a moderating role in the relationship between resilience and calling (β = 0.16, p < 0.05).ConclusionGreater resilience can positively predict increased calling among Chinese ICU nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, thriving at work is a mechanism that partly transmits the positive effects of resilience on calling. Overall, nurses possessing greater resilience tend to maintain thriving at work in the face of such adversity, further resulting in subsequently increased calling. Besides, findings suggest that there is stronger influence of resilience on calling among nurses working in an organization managed by an ethical leader. The current findings may offer two insights for nursing practitioners and policymakers in the postpandemic world. First, resilience training and intervention are necessary to foster nurses' sense of thriving at work in the nursing industry, further promoting career calling. Second, better training and effort on the development of ethical leadership for leaders in nursing practice are essential to encourage followers to engage in social learning of ethical behaviors and abiding by normatively appropriate conduct, further enacting prosocial values and expressing moral emotions.

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The Effect of Chinese Special Education Teachers’ Competence on Their Occupational Well-Being: The Mediating Effect of Resilience

Cited by 7 publications

References 46 publications

The Case for Special Education Teacher Wellbeing: A Multidimensional Review of the Evidence and Future Directions

The Case for Special Education Teacher Wellbeing: A Multidimensional Review of the Evidence and Future Directions

Psychological Capital and Occupational Well-Being: Mediating Effects of Work Engagement Among Chinese Special Education Teachers

Can resilience promote calling among Chinese nurses in intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic? The mediating role of thriving at work and moderating role of ethical leadership

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