Abstract Book of the 9th International Conference on Research in Education
Year: 2025
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The Role of Psychosocial Support in Coping the Psychological Stress for Teachers
Zaid Mohd Khair Mohd Almajdoub, Yahia Mohammad Al Ramamneh
ABSTRACT:
Psychological support helps teachers in the management of emotional challenges, which in turn improves their mental health and job satisfaction (Agyapong et al., 2022). As a result of high workloads and the demands of classroom management, teachers are likely to experience high level of psychological stress that affects their mental health and job satisfaction (Skaalvik & Skaalvik, 2017). Research indicates that the nature of teaching exposes educators to elevated levels of psychological stress (Markelj et al., 2024). Psychosocial support is recognized as a vital element in alleviating psychological stress among teachers (Agyapong et al., 2023). Al-Mahdawi (2022) recommended the importance of providing counseling programs that promote coping with psychological pressures.
The purpose of the study was to explore the role of psychosocial support in the coping with psychological stress among teachers in Jordan. The study used a quantitative method, and the sample consisted of 330 male and female secondary teachers in schools in Jordan. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 104 male and female teachers who were chosen through simple random sampling. The results showed that psychosocial support had a statistically significant relationship with coping with psychological stress among teachers. For every one unit increase in psychosocial support, psychological stress decreased by 3.551 in the opposite direction.
The results also showed that there were statistically significant differences at α ≤ 0.05 level between the average responses of the study sample on the psychosocial support scale based on the gender variable and in the favor of males. The study recommends enhancing psychosocial support through programs and workshops, developing counseling with modern technology and empowering teachers to manage psychological stress.
keywords: Counseling, Mental health, Programs, Social support, Schools, Psychosocial support, psychological stress, Teachers