Open AccessTo Cope or Not to Cope? Characterizing Biology Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Coping with Teaching and Research Anxieties
Author(s) -
Miranda M. Chen Musgrove,
Alyssa Cooley,
Olivia Feiten,
Kate Petrie,
Elisabeth E. Schussler
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
cbe life sciences education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1931-7913
DOI - 10.1187/cbe.20-08-0175
Subject(s) - coping (psychology) , stressor , graduate students , psychology , anxiety , population , clinical psychology , medical education , pedagogy , medicine , psychiatry , environmental health
Biology graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) often used adaptive coping strategies to manage teaching and research anxieties. Notably, GTAs tended to use strategies such as support seeking, self-reliance, accommodation, and distraction more often to manage research anxieties compared with teaching anxieties. Over time, GTAs narrowed their adaptive coping to certain strategies.