Open AccessPerceived Stress Due COVID-19 Pandemic Among Employed Professional Teachers
Author(s) -
Ryan Michael Oducado,
Judith S. Rabacal,
Rome B. Moralista,
Khen A. Tamdang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of educational research and innovation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2386-4303
DOI - 10.46661/ijeri.5284
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , perceived stress scale , stress (linguistics) , psychology , psychological intervention , stress management , outbreak , scale (ratio) , medicine , clinical psychology , psychiatry , disease , geography , virology , linguistics , philosophy , cartography , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The unexpected occurrence of the COVID-19 outbreak has undeniably disrupted the normalcy of life. Stress has become an important concern in education since the COVID-19 outbreak. This descriptive-correlational online survey administered in August 2020 utilized the COVID-19 Perceived Stress Scale (COVID-19 PSS-10) to assess the COVID-19 perceived stress among employed Filipino teachers. Whitney U and Kruskal–Wallis tested for differences while Spearman’s rho was used to analyze correlation between variables. Results demonstrated that more than half of teachers experienced moderate COVID-19 stress. Females experienced significantly higher COVID-19 stress compared to males. A negative correlation was noted between self-rated health and COVID-19 stress while a positive correlation was found between perceive risk of getting COVID-19 infection and COVID-19 stress. This study highlights that steps must be undertaken to help teachers deal with the stress of the COVID-19 crisis as well as they must be provided or taught with stress management interventions during this pandemic. This study could be used as a baseline for future research to assess the impact of COVID-19 stress among professional teachers.