Abstract
This study provides insights into what makes teachers flourish in public sector universities of Sindh, Pakistan. Flourishing represents a balanced life where a person is happy with their status and is functioning effectively. The well-being of teachers has reportedly been lower than the general population (Education Support Partnership, 2019). Depressive symptoms were reported by 49% of 1189 academic staff members at 12 universities in Sindh, according to research on stress-related mental health problems in the Pakistani Scenario. Yet, research on evaluating teachers' mental health is lacking, notably among Pakistani university professors (Akram, 2019). Therefore, this study sheds light on the impact of perceived social support on educators' flourishing. Also, it discusses the boundary condition of challenge appraisals in this relationship. Statistical analysis was performed on data collected from 229 educators in Sindh, Pakistan's public sector universities. The result found a positive and statistically significant link between educators' perceptions of supervisors and co-worker support with educators' flourishing. However, challenge appraisal was found insignificant between exogenous and endogenous latent components. Overall, the study's findings suggest that perceived social support might help educators flourish at Sindh's public higher education institutions. The results' implications are discussed.
Highlights
Mental health and well-being are crucial aspects of an organization's performance and success (Page et al, 2009)
Bakker and Demerouti (2016) suggested that instead of looking at what is wrong with employees, it was possible to investigate under which conditions employees flourish at work.In short, flourishing is a complex structure consisting of good emotional wellbeing, positive psychological functioning, and positive social functioning that covers all aspects of mental health and is known as prosperity (Nelson et al, 2016)
2) What role does challenge appraisal play in moderating the relationship between perceived social support and educator's flourishing? This study investigated challenge appraisal as a moderator supported by the personenvironment theory, which was not studied in the previous literature
Summary
Mental health and well-being are crucial aspects of an organization's performance and success (Page et al, 2009). University educators in Pakistan are seriously suffering from occupational stress and burnout (Faisal & Khair, 2019; Khan & Anwar, 2019; Malik & Björkqvist, 2018) leading to languishing and intentions to leave teaching profession (Rothmann & Redelinghuys, 2020) Other scholars such as Khan, among 1,189 academic staff members at 12 institutions in Pakistan, mental health concerns revealed that 50% of academics had a significant fear, 49% had social problems, and 49% exhibited signs of depression. Bakker and Demerouti (2016) suggested that instead of looking at what is wrong with employees, it was possible to investigate under which conditions employees flourish at work.In short, flourishing is a complex structure consisting of good emotional wellbeing, positive psychological functioning, and positive social functioning that covers all aspects of mental health and is known as prosperity (Nelson et al, 2016) It promotes a stable and efficient organization (Boddy, 2014) and improves job performance (Wright & Bonett, 2007). This could be why Pakistan fails to fulfill the objective of sustainable development to deliver quality education (Pakistan Economic Statistics Report, 2018)
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