Revisiting effects of teacher characteristics on physiological and psychological stress: a virtual reality study.

ABSTRACT: Identifying personal characteristics associated with teachers' stress is a longstanding research goal with important implications for practice. The present work revisits the effects of individual characteristics in terms of neuroticism, classroom management self-efficacy, and cognitive (reasoning) abilities on stress using virtual reality (VR). Relying on a sample of 56 German pre-service teachers (M_age = 22.73, SD_age = 4.93; 50.9% females), we capitalized on a VR classroom environment that allowed the integration of experimental control and authentic teaching situations, where pre-service teachers responded to the disruptive behaviors of the student avatars. We focused on stress responses in terms of psychological stress (self-reported stress) assessed after the VR s

SUBMITTER: Bardach L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10721614 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature