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

2022/12/21 by Girum Tareke Zewude, Sisay Demissew Beyene, Belayneh Taye +2 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Health Professions · Psychology · #COVID-19 and Mental Health #Health, psychology, and well-being #Resilience and Mental Health

paper · pdf · doi:10.3390/ejihpe13010001

openalex publication_date 2022/12/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

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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