“Teachers don’t exist without Students. And in a way (…) Students don’t exist without Teachers.”: Conceptualization and Interaction of Students’ and Teachers’ Well-Being

Hoppe, Elena-Maria (2022) “Teachers don’t exist without Students. And in a way (…) Students don’t exist without Teachers.”: Conceptualization and Interaction of Students’ and Teachers’ Well-Being. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.

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Abstract

The literature body contains many studies that explored well-being in the academic setting. These studies indicated high levels of distress and increasing rates of pathologies among students and teachers. Even though, evidence suggests that students’ and teachers’ well-being is connected and influences each other there is little research that explores students and teachers simultaneously. This is why this study aims to fill in this gap by exploring how well-being is conceptualized by students and teachers and how their well-being interacts. Additionally, special emphasis is given to factors that influence teachers’ well-being. To understand this a qualitative approach, using multistage coding, was applied and semi-structured interviews were conducted with university students and teachers. Our results indicated that well-being incorporates elements of mental, social, emotional, and hedonic well-being, as well as basic need satisfaction. This was in line with positive psychology, multifaceted, and basic need approaches to well-being. In regard to student-teacher interaction, mutual engagement, and communication were important well-being determinants. Self-awareness and regulation were outlined as internal factors to enhance teachers’ well-being and coincided with the concept of resilience. Considering this further research should investigate these multifaceted components in more depth and implement the concept of resilience in the academic context. Keywords: well-being, student-teacher interaction, teacher well-being, positive psychology, SDT, resilience, university, academia

Item Type:	Thesis (Bachelor)
Supervisor name:	Ballato, L.
Degree programme:	Psychology
Differentiation route:	None [Bachelor Psychology]
Date Deposited:	08 Jul 2022 07:16
Last Modified:	08 Jul 2022 07:16
URI:	http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/779

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