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Title: | Does Empathy Predict Instructional Assignment- Related Stress? A Study in Special and General Education Teachers |
Authors: | Platsidou, Maria Agaliotis, Ioannis |
Type: | Article |
Subjects: | FRASCATI::Social sciences |
Keywords: | Empathy general education instructional assignmentrelated stress Interpersonal Reactivity Index inventory of job-related stress factors perspective taking special education teachers |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
Source: | International Journal of Disability, Development and Education |
Volume: | 64 |
Issue: | 1 |
First Page: | 57 |
Last Page: | 75 |
Abstract: | The role of empathy in the teaching profession has been vastly investigated in relation to its effect on students, but research on how teachers’ empathy affects their own well-being at work is limited. This study investigated empathy and instructional assignmentrelated stress factors of primary school teachers serving in general or special education; moreover, it investigated if empathy predicted instructional assignment-related stress. Data were collected from 190 primary school teachers using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index and the Inventory of Job-related Stress Factors. Teachers reported moderately high levels of perspective-taking and empathic concern and lower levels of fantasising and personal distress. Also, they reported moderate to low levels of stress regarding instructional assignment-related factors. General and special education teachers did not differ in their reported scores on empathy or stress-related factors. Finally, it was found that instructional assignment-related stress factors can be predicted by personal distress and fantasising; however, the core empathy skills (empathic concern and perspective taking) were not found to be strong predictors of the stress factors tested. |
URI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/1034912X.2016.1174191 https://ruomo.lib.uom.gr/handle/7000/480 |
ISSN: | ISSN: 1034-912X 1465-346X |
Other Identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1034912X.2016.1174191 |
Appears in Collections: | Department of Educational & Social Policy |
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