The Impact of Teachers’ Level of Awe, Resilience, and Self-Compassion on Their Performance During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Authors: Alicja Gałązka , Joanna Jarosz

Abstracts

EN

Emergency following the COVID-19 pandemic has forced educational institutions in over 190 countries to close, and teachers worldwide worked hard to adapt their curriculum to an online format and face multiple related challenges. The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on teachers’ performance and verify whether this change may have been justified by individual resilience, self-compassion and awe levels. The respondents perceived a significant drop in performance following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic across all investigated subscales. Preliminary data obtained in this study indicate that this drop may be explained by a link between performance and Awe, Resilience and Self-Compassion.

Keywords

EN

awe; teachers’ performance; resilience; self-compassion

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 67
• Pages: 196-206

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Alicja Gałązka

• University of Silesia

• https://orcid.org/0000000262665038

author

Joanna Jarosz

• University of Silesia

• https://orcid.org/0000000263092171

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.22.67.1.15

Biblioteka Nauki

2034197