Specifics of Psychological, Social and Physical Health Levels Interrelation among Teachers of Different Age and Teaching Experience

Rezeda M Khusainova

doi:10.5539/res.v7n1p166

Abstract

Thematic justification of teachers’ psychological health is caused by the fact that its violation poses the essential problem of psychological services in education. The purpose of the article is to study specifics of psychological, social and physical health levels interrelation among teachers of different age and teaching experience. The main method of studying this issue is the ascertaining experiment. Consideration of the components of psychological health was based on psychological distinguishing such levels as psychological (supposed the adequate attitude to health on cognitive, emotional and motivation-behavioral levels); social (defined by the presence of formed communicative qualities and specifics of interpersonal interaction); physical (supporting psychological health due to the functioning of energy structures). Comparative analysis of correlation structures revealed the dominant objective laws of interrelation of selected indicators on the psychological, physical and social health levels, as well as their specifics in groups of teachers with different teaching experience. Depending on the age and teaching experience psychological or physical health indicators become the “core” of the correlation pleiad. The obtained results allow speaking about a marked impact of the psychological health level on the components of social and physical levels. Immediate practical importance has the generated group of methods, which allow objective and quick diagnosing of psychological health in the condition of teachers health monitoring and thereby improving the efficiency of its correction.

Highlights

The health of education workers is one of the fundamental problems of modern society
Comparative analysis of the quantitative values of the studied data revealed a significant difference between the data of psychological health among teachers of all groups
A comparative analysis of correlation structures reveals the dominant laws of indicators interrelation distinguished at the psychological and physical levels, as well as their specifics in groups of teachers with different experience of teaching

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Introduction

The health of education workers is one of the fundamental problems of modern society. The essence of the concept “health”, considered in the article, according to the hierarchical levels of integral individuality on the biological, psychological and social levels, is defined in terms of the identification and disclosure of the criteria content of physical, psychological, psychic and social health, which serve as means of health diagnostics. At present time this concept is considered at three levels of human functioning: biological, psychological, social, and increasingly the subject of study becomes psychological and social health.

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