The occupational anxiety of teachers caused by China’s ‘double reduction’ policy—a study based on the grounded theory

Abstract

Teachers’ occupational anxiety is a kind of negative emotional state of teachers, which is prevalent in Chinese teachers. Unfortunately, in the existing research, teachers’ occupational anxiety caused by China’s ‘double reduction’ policy has not been paid attention to. Based on the grounded theory, this study conducted in-depth interviews with 45 in-service primary and junior high school teachers, and used NVivo 12 to process recording materials. Through a series of steps such as open coding, axial coding and selective coding, we found that the core feature of teachers’ occupational anxiety caused by the ‘double reduction’ policy was that the implementation of the ‘double reduction’ policy was incomplete matching the actual educational ecology. Then we constructed a theoretical model of the formation mechanism of teachers’ occupational anxiety caused by the ‘double reduction’ policy. The study showed that due to the influence of teachers’ own personality characteristics and incomplete match between external factors, although teachers insisted on self-adjustment, it was difficult to fundamentally solve the teachers’ occupational anxiety caused by the ‘double reduction’ policy.

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“…Based on grounded theory, developed by Glaser and Strauss ( 19 ) and Yue et al ( 20 ), this study aimed to explore pandemic prevention and control measures. Grounded theory mainly includes the following steps: open coding, axial coding and selective coding.…”

“…Axial coding occurs after open coding, according to Corbin and Strauss (23) paradigm model; combined with related theories, this step involves regrouping concepts and discovering and establishing organic links between conceptual categories (20). With the assistance of Nvivo 12 software, the 47 tertiary nodes of the interview text were summarized into 24 secondary nodes, which are located in the middle of the hierarchy.…”