The Teacher Well-Being Scale (TWBS): Construct validity, model comparisons and measurement invariance in an Ethiopian setting

Zewude, Girum Tareke; Hercz, Mária

doi:10.1080/14330237.2022.2027623

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic has had an adverse effect on people's psychological wellbeing, which is complicated by the fact that teaching is one of the most stressful professions [45,46]. The authors of [45] found that resilience and SOC are the best personal resources that may safeguard ego strength and lower stress levels and are essential during the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

Section: The Relation Between Covid-19 Stress Resilience and Socmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The authors of [45] found that resilience and SOC are the best personal resources that may safeguard ego strength and lower stress levels and are essential during the COVID-19 pandemic. They are also the most critical psychological constructs that substantially support an individual's well-being and functioning level while under severe stress [45][46][47][48].…”

Section: The Relation Between Covid-19 Stress Resilience and Socmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…SOC is a construct made up of three dimensions: comprehensibility, meaningfulness, and manageability [53,55]. Individuals with a higher SOC are better able to understand themselves and their social surroundings, reduce negative feelings, improve their overall physical health, reduce stress, and promote general well-being [46,59]. Furthermore, researchers discovered a substantiated, positive, and significant relationship between SOC and well-being, as well as a negative association with its negative outcomes [53,[61][62][63][64].…”

Section: The Relation Between Soc Resilience and Teacher Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ethiopia is home to 50. Thus, the Ministry of Education grouped universities considered centers of excellence based on the establishment age, contribution to research and community service, the extent of international competition and collaboration, efficiency, infrastructure, and research publication [35,46,59]. Institutions in the study area were classified as research (Bahirdar and Gondar), applied (Wollo, Debre Berhan, and Debre Markos), and general (Debre Tabor, Mekidela amba Woldia, and Injibara) universities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Measurement invariance or equivalence (MI) refers to the unbiased measurement between two languages and cultural backgrounds using the same instrument [35,46,59,78], and it is needed to confirm comparative groups (culture, gender, age, education, etc.) [46,78]. Such differences are detected by applying MI across various group stages [66][67][68].…”

Section: Measurement Invariance (Mi) Of the Study Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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COVID-19 Stress and Teachers Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Sense of Coherence and Resilience

Zewude

Beyene

Taye

et al. 2022

EJIHPE

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The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted many professions with short-, medium-, and long-term consequences. Hence, this study examined the mediating role of sense of coherence (SOC) and resilience in the relation to COVID-19 stress and teachers’ well-being (TWB). It recruited 836 teachers from Ethiopia’s higher-education institutions, of which 630 (75.4%) were men and 206 (24.6%) were women, with a mean age of 32.81 years and a standard deviation of 6.42. Findings showed that COVID-19 stress negatively predicted SOC, resilience, and TWB and that SOC and resilience positively predicted TWB. It was concluded that SOC and resilience, both together and separately, mediated the relation between COVID-19 stress and TWB. These results were discussed alongside relevant literature, and the study is found to be valuable for practitioners and researchers who seek to improve well-being using SOC and resilience as resources across teaching professions.

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Section: The Relation Between Covid-19 Stress Resilience and Socmentioning

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Beyene

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A serial mediation model of Big 5 personality traits, emotional intelligence, and psychological capital as predictors of teachers' professional well-being

Zewude,

Mesfin,

Sadouki

et al. 2024

Acta Psychologica

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Teaching and Student Evaluation Tasks: Cross-Cultural Adaptation, Psychometric Properties and Measurement Invariance of Work Tasks Motivation Scale for Teachers

Zewude¹,

Hercz²,

Ngan³

et al. 2022

EUROPEAN J ED RES

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<p style="text-align: justify;">The present research aimed to test an Amharic version of the multi-dimensional Work Task Motivation Scale for Teachers (WTMST), which measures the five pillars of university instructors’ motivation toward teaching and student evaluation tasks based on self-determination theory (SDT). Therefore, the WTMST offers the first instrument to measure all five motivational elements, and today it is one of the most applicable instruments to assess teachers’ motivation. An Amharic version of the WTMST for teaching and student evaluation tasks was adopted and assessed in large-scale data (N=1,117). Our findings demonstrate excellent reliability and construct validity (convergent, discriminant, divergent and factorial). Besides, the results of the model comparisons provided that out of the four theoretically competing models (single-order factor, correlated factor, higher-order factor and bi-factor models), the bi-factor model was the most-fitted one used for measurement invariance across various groups. Results also suggest that the factor structure of the WTMST for both teaching and student evaluation tasks demonstrate consistency across gender (men, women), university types (research, applied, and general university), age and experience in teaching. Therefore, the WTMST for teaching and student evaluation tasks may be valid in Ethiopian higher education settings.</p>

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The Teacher Well-Being Scale (TWBS): Construct validity, model comparisons and measurement invariance in an Ethiopian setting

Cited by 10 publications

References 34 publications

COVID-19 Stress and Teachers Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Sense of Coherence and Resilience

COVID-19 Stress and Teachers Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Sense of Coherence and Resilience

A serial mediation model of Big 5 personality traits, emotional intelligence, and psychological capital as predictors of teachers' professional well-being

Teaching and Student Evaluation Tasks: Cross-Cultural Adaptation, Psychometric Properties and Measurement Invariance of Work Tasks Motivation Scale for Teachers

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