The phenomenon of stress in Elementary School teachers: an integrative review

• Autor(a) principal: Ben, Mariana Dal
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Silva, Daniel Augusto da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/12589
• topic: Occupational Stress; Stress, Psychological; School Teachers; Education primary and secondary.; Estrés Laboral; Estrés Psicológico; Maestros; Educación primaria y secundaria.; Estresse Ocupacional; Estresse Psicológico; Professores Escolares; Ensino fundamental e médio.

Objective: to identify risk and protection factors, and strategies for coping with stress in elementary school teachers in public schools. Methodology: this is a qualitative, exploratory bibliographic study, with synthesis of scientific productions through an integrative review. The search for articles was carried out between May and August 2020, using the Health Descriptors: Psychological Stress; School Teachers, and the Boolean operator “AND”. Results: 10 articles were analyzed, published in the year 2020. It is noticed that teachers go through several stressors, who are accompanying them daily and that go through the most diverse orders such as: overcrowded rooms, students' indiscipline, lack of physical structure and material, lack of attention and commitment of students to the school, making them feel devalued, disrespected and often blamed, for not being able to cover all the functions that are imposed on them. These working conditions, in which teachers use all of their physical, cognitive and affective abilities to achieve the goals of school production, can end up generating a great strain on their psychophysiological functions. Final considerations: The stress in elementary school teachers is real, and can take these mental and physical health problems seriously.