Tolerance as a determinant of educational staff's psychological healt

Abstract

Introduction. The determinants of educational staff's psychological health, including their tolerance, has been increasingly drawing attention of researchers. Aim: to empirically investigate the types and index of educational staff's tolerance and the impact of educational staff's tolerance indicators on the structural components of educational staff's psychological health. Methods: G. Soldatova et al. Tolerance Index, T. Galkina and N. Artemtseva Attitude to Psychological Health Scale, J. Lukat et al. Positive Mental Health Scale, and the Multidimensional Health Locus-of-Control Scales. Results. Tolerance as a personality trait has been found to be the most pronounced type of tolerance, followed by ethnic tolerance and social tolerance (the least pronounced). Tolerance type and index affect certain components of educational staff's psychological health. Among the components of educational staff's psychological health that are most responsive to tolerance indicators are the reflexive-personal component (a positive effect) and the operational-functional component, in particular, its «case control» component (a negative effect). Conclusions. Tolerance indicators should be considered as determinants of educational staff's psychological health.