Frontiers in Education
Comprehensively understanding K-12 teachers’ occupational health: a convergent mixed-methods exploration of stress and wellbeing
Stress has detrimental impacts on K-12 teachers’ occupational health, yet there is no consensus on how best to define and measure it. As such, the present study implemented quantitative and qualitative methodologies, including a physiological measure of stress, to comprehensively assess and understand teacher stress in one independent school district in the southern United States. Forty-four public school teachers participated by completing self-reported measures of stress and occupational health, providing a hair …