OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to explore the general coping style of female teachers with a relatively low voice handicap compared with teachers with a relatively high voice handicap. PATIENTS AND METHODS A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted among 450 teachers using the Voice Handicap Index (VHI) and the Utrecht Coping List (UCL). A group of 400 subjects quasi-randomly se...

Last decade is characterized by the tendencies of the modern higher school development. This is based on the informatization of education. In this work, basing on didactics of higher school pedagogy a system of psychological and pedagogical characteristics for higher school teachers was created. Psychological, educational requirements for professional competence of university teachers are based...

BACKGROUND PCB contamination in the built environment may result from the release of PCBs from building materials. The significance of this contamination as a pathway of human exposure is not well-characterized, however. This research compared the serum PCB concentrations, and congener profiles between 18 teachers in PCB-containing schools and referent populations. METHODS Blood samples from ...

Providing students in urban settings with quality teachers is important for student achievement. This study examined the differences in content knowledge, attitudes toward mathematics, and teacher efficacy among several different types of alternatively certified teachers in a sample from the New York City Teaching Fellows program in order to determine teacher quality. Findings revealed that hig...

this study was conducted in english for academic purposes (eap) context to explore iranian teachers' perceptions of their pedagogical content knowledge (pck) and their sense of professional identity (pi) as well as to scrutinize how their cognitions were practiced in eap classes. to this end, two elt teachers and two content instructors (i.e. subject experts who teach eap courses in addition to...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the levels of meaning in life (MIL), psychological well-being (PWB) and quality of life (QOL) in a large sample of school teachers, and to observe to what extent the MIL could act as a moderator variable in the relation between PWB and general QOL. The study included 517 teachers from 57 public and private schools in the city of Campina Grande, Paraíba, Bra...

conclusions the results confirm the available literature data, while noting that self-harming is a preponderantly male behavior. the results also signal the need to create opportunities to instruct teachers to combat the resistances and stereotypes of psychological distress. results data analysis confirms an association between self- cutting and alcohol use, sexual harassments, school dropout, ...