PMID- 35707122
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230112
LR  - 20230112
IS  - 2167-8359 (Print)
IS  - 2167-8359 (Electronic)
IS  - 2167-8359 (Linking)
VI  - 10
DP  - 2022
TI  - Assessment of job satisfaction, self-efficacy, and the level of professional 
      burnout of primary and secondary school teachers in Poland during the COVID-19 
      pandemic.
PG  - e13349
LID - 10.7717/peerj.13349 [doi]
LID - e13349
AB  - BACKGROUND: The work of teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic created additional 
      challenges and required them to go beyond conventional teaching methods, which in 
      turn required teachers to be more resilient and caused stress and excessive 
      workload. The aim of the study was to assess the level of occupational burnout, 
      the sense of job satisfaction and the self-efficacy of primary and secondary 
      school teachers working during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland. METHODS: This is 
      a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted among 412 teachers from randomly 
      selected primary and secondary schools in the Podkarpacie region in Poland. The 
      questionnaire contained socio-demographic data of the respondents and three 
      standardized scales: The Scale of Job Satisfaction (SJS), General Self-Efficacy 
      Scale (GSES) and Arbeitsbesorgenes Verhaltens und Erlebenmuster (AVEM). The 
      Shapiro-Wilk, Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U-test were used. Statistical 
      analysis was performed with Statistica TIBCO 13.3 and R (version 3.6.1) software. 
      RESULTS: The satisfaction with the work of the surveyed teachers was average in 
      the job satisfaction scale. The vast majority of the surveyed teachers presented 
      type B (overburdened risk type) of work-related behavior, and type A 
      (overburdened risk type) in which the probability of burnout is very high. The 
      feeling of self-effectiveness determines the level of job satisfaction and the 
      level of professional burnout among the surveyed teachers. Job satisfaction had a 
      statistically significant impact on the assessment of self-efficacy of the 
      surveyed teachers (p < 0.0001). The types of work-related behavior have a 
      statistically significant impact on the assessment of the teachers' own 
      effectiveness (p < 0.0001). CONCLUSION: There is a close relationship between 
      teachers' level of self- efficacy, job satisfaction and, therefore it may 
      predispose them to the occurrence of burnout syndrome in the future. Support for 
      this professional group is needed. These findings may be important for education 
      policy, teacher's practice, and subsequent research. Ultimately, the study may 
      provide some suggestions for methodological and educational strategies.
CI  - (c)2022 Bartosiewicz et al.
FAU - Bartosiewicz, Anna
AU  - Bartosiewicz A
AD  - Institute of Health Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszow University, Rzeszow, 
      Poland.
FAU - Luszczki, Edyta
AU  - Luszczki E
AD  - Institute of Health Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszow University, Rzeszow, 
      Poland.
FAU - Zareba, Lech
AU  - Zareba L
AD  - Institute of Computer Science, College of Natural Sciences, University of 
      Rzeszow, Rzeszow, Poland.
FAU - Kuchciak, Maciej
AU  - Kuchciak M
AD  - Institute of Physical Culture Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszow University, 
      Rzeszow, Poland.
FAU - Bobula, Gabriel
AU  - Bobula G
AD  - Institute of Physical Culture Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszow University, 
      Rzeszow, Poland.
FAU - Deren, Katarzyna
AU  - Deren K
AD  - Institute of Health Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszow University, Rzeszow, 
      Poland.
FAU - Krol, Pawel
AU  - Krol P
AD  - Institute of Physical Culture Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszow University, 
      Rzeszow, Poland.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220610
PL  - United States
TA  - PeerJ
JT  - PeerJ
JID - 101603425
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Burnout, Professional/epidemiology
MH  - Self Efficacy
MH  - Job Satisfaction
MH  - Poland/epidemiology
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Pandemics
MH  - *COVID-19/epidemiology
MH  - Schools
PMC - PMC9190669
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Burnout
OT  - COVID-19
OT  - Job satisfaction
OT  - Self-efficacy
OT  - Teachers
COIS- The authors declare there are no competing interests.
EDAT- 2022/06/17 06:00
MHDA- 2022/06/17 06:01
PMCR- 2022/06/10
CRDT- 2022/06/16 02:33
PHST- 2021/11/05 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/04/07 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/06/16 02:33 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/06/17 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/06/17 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/06/10 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 13349 [pii]
AID - 10.7717/peerj.13349 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - PeerJ. 2022 Jun 10;10:e13349. doi: 10.7717/peerj.13349. eCollection 2022.