Measuring The Influence Of Stress And Burnout In Teacher-Child Relationship: A Critical Analysis

Methodology

Discuss about the Understand The Relationship Between Teacher And Students.

The focus and the purpose of the research is to understand the relationship between teacher and students that has been a matter of consideration in the past years as well as in the current years. The essay is the critical analysis of the article named, ‘Measuring the influence of stress and burnout in teacher-child relationship’. The essay concentrates on the relationship between the teacher and the student that has changed gradually with the passing years. The relationship between the teachers and the students has kept on changing and it brought out different aspects related to it. The major concern of the essay is the stress that is associated with the relationship between the teacher and the student. The reason of the stress is the burnout of the teacher (Gastaldi et al., 2014).

The hypothesis that guided the research is the real reason of the poor relation between the teachers and the students are the factors that are responsible for their exhaustion in school.

The variables that has been used in the study are the characteristics, socialization and the behaviors of the teachers. These are the factors that keeps changing and are responsible for the changing behavior and the stress-out of the teachers.

The research employed for the study is the secondary form of research. This includes the quality research that has been done seeking the help of SPSS.

The sample has been selected by measuring the student-teacher relationship scale.

The data collection used in the study was the teachers were asked to complete a specially designed Form for registration of socio-personal and professional data, for the collection of information about personal variables (age, marital status, presence and number of children) and professional variables (years of teaching experience, qualifications, type of contract, whether class teacher or support teacher, subjects taught, class size).

The other thing that could be done in the methodology is the application of the primary form of research that is interview. The teachers and the students could be taken separate interviews and they should be asked about their relationships with each other. The further discussion would involve the factors that make them annoying which can be the reason for the poor relation between the teachers and students.

Teachers are found to be exhausted in the school environment and this is the cause of the poor relation between the teacher and the student. This has turned out to be a serious problem in the recent years. The stress and the exhaustion of the teachers can be centered on the characteristics, socialization and the behaviors of the teachers itself. The researchers have explored that there is a connection between the burnout of the teachers and the relationship of those with the students. This is the result of the stress that the teachers face at school. The stress of the teachers can be termed to be one of the environmental factors. The teachers have to bear the behavior of the students at school. The article consists of the preliminary analysis of the connection between the stress of the teachers, the academic performance of the students, the relationship between pupil and teacher (Oberle & Schonert-Reichl, 2016).

Teachers Exhaustion and Stress at School

The growing stress of a teacher is a major concern in many schools in many countries. The major source of the stress of the teachers is the pressure of the work at school and indiscipline behavior of the students. Apart from this the factors that are responsible for the stress of the teachers are increased amount of workload, minimum amount of contact with the colleagues, situations of conflict linked to their role, poor structure of remuneration and the poor relation with the parents. It is further suggested that the level of job satisfaction of the teachers is directly correlated with the degree of autonomy. The personal problems and the problems in the working situation usually increase the level of stress in the lives of the teachers (Rosado, 2017). The teachers are frustrated because of their professional lives and this is the reason they exert those pressures in their professional as well as in the personal life. The burnout syndrome would act on various aspects that involve teaching in the schools. The cognitive and the behavioral concept come to the forefront in this context. It includes the vast range duties and the rational factor is another aspect that can be related to this context. It includes the relation with the pupils, their families and colleagues. The stress in the teachers is a growing problem in the western schools. The psychophysical well-being of the teachers is getting disturbed because of the stress in the professional field (Moss et al., 2017).

The article consists of an analysis that was carried by involving sample that was least affected as a whole by the syndrome of burn-out (Whitaker et al., 2015). It was found that the degree of self-efficacy was medium to high. It was established further that the teachers with low efficacy was much prone to exhaustion and depersonalization. The other finding involves the fact that the level of the emotional and the psychological well-being is correlated to low levels of conflict that is perceived in relations within the pupil (Jennings, 2015).

Keeping in mind the above observation in mind this can be argued that there is a congruency between the research questions, the methodology and the findings of the study. The stress that was experienced by the teachers was not justified. This was the reason they released the stress on their students. The relationship of teacher and pupil gets hampered because of this. The reasons are justified in some cases. The personal life of the teachers gets disturbed and that needs to be released. This is the reason they are justified in some cases. It has been however found in the article that low levels of emotional exhaustion and of depersonalization and moderate levels of gratification helps the teachers to keep a low degree of burn out (Sandilos et al., 2018). By analyzing all the situations this can be declared that teachers without gratification show greater levels of personal gratification. With the fall of personal gratification the self-efficacy of the class falls. The degree of teaching is immensely important. It has been found that the teachers who have the degree have the highest level of self-efficacy. The lack of self-efficacy in class and competence results in burn-out. It has also been observed that if the strength of the class is high the stress level of the teacher becomes low. This is the reason the efforts of the students are necessary for the increase of the self-efficacy (Chen & Phillips, 2018).

Therefore while concluding this can be mentioned that there is a relation between the self-efficacy of the teacher and the degree of burn out. The pupils in such cases become the means to release those. It highly affects the relation between the pupil and a teacher. The emotional and the psychological stability is therefore highly required for reduce of burn out. The factors of burn out should be taken into consideration in order to avoid the aspect of burn out.  This would avoid the conflict between the teachers and the pupils. Professional satisfaction is required in order to avoid the exhaustion that occurs. The satisfaction in the professional as well in the personal life is extremely required in order to leave a life without stress. This would enable the teachers to have a good relation with the pupils without any conflict. Efforts should be taken to eliminate the factors of burn out form the life of the teachers to establish a healthy relation with the pupils.

References

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Oberle, E., & Schonert-Reichl, K. A. (2016). Stress contagion in the classroom? The link between classroom teacher burnout and morning cortisol in elementary school students. Social Science & Medicine, 159, 30-37.

Rosado, M. A. (2017). Evaluating the Relationship between Psychological Flexibility, Teacher Self-Efficacy, Teacher-Student Interactions, and Burnout Syndrome. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Sandilos, L. E., Goble, P., Rimm-Kaufman, S. E., & Pianta, R. C. (2018). Does professional development reduce the influence of teacher stress on teacher–child interactions in pre-kindergarten classrooms?. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 42, 280-290.

Whitaker, R. C., Dearth-Wesley, T., & Gooze, R. A. (2015). Workplace stress and the quality of teacher–children relationships in Head Start. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 30, 57-69.