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Marina
Delgrande Jordan, Emmanuel Kuntsche and Jacqueline Sidler
Professional
overload and dissatisfaction among teachers in Switzerland –
associations with depressiveness and somatic complaints
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Based on a representative
sample for Switzerland, this paper describes, for the first
time, the psychometric qualities of the scales “professional
overload” and “professional dissatisfaction”
from Enzmann and Kleiber (1989) as well as their association
with depressiveness and somatic complaints among teachers of
5th to 9th grades. The answers of 485 teachers were analyzed
using principal component analysis and multiple regressions.
In accordance with the results of previous studies, “professional
overload” and “professional dissatisfaction”
are two different dimensions. Professional overload and depressiveness
are more frequent in the French speaking part than in the German
speaking part. On the other hand, no difference was found between
the linguistic regions with regards to professional dissatisfaction
and somatic complaints. More than one third of the variance
of depressiveness is explained only by the two variables, professional
overload and professional dissatisfaction. In addition, both
variables are associated with somatic complaints. The more the
teachers are overloaded and dissatisfied, the more they report
somatic or psychological problems. This is alarming because
these complaints may be an indicator of chronic stress or burnout.
Preventive actions that can contribute to improve the work conditions
of teachers are suggested and described at the end of the paper. |
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