Year: 1997
Type: report
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Being a teacher demands commitment and active involvement. At the same time, the job contains elements that teachers may find difficult to put out of their minds when the working day is over. There may also be anticipatory tension prompted by the work of the day ahead. A failure to unwind and recuperate may result. Six items were constructed and combined to identify level of activation, unwinding and recuperation during the 24 hours of the day. The study group comprises 425 teachers from 12 schools in the Swedish county of Örebro. The application of cluster analysis to questionnaire data generated three distinct groups. About 20 percent of the teachers fell into a group denoted as "Tired and Troubled", representing a failure to unwind and recuperate. This group showed clearly more symptoms of ill-health, and greater absence through sickness and attendance when sick than the other two groups. Failure to unwind/recuperate is strongly related to aspects of the micro work situation but not to teachers' perceptions of more general organizational circumstances.
Authors: Gunnar Aronsson, Lennart Svensson
Language: Swedish
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2100914136