Volume 29, Issue 5, 2020
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.1050
Research on the Mental Health Characteristics of Chinese Special Education Teachers
Abstract
Objective: To investigate and analyse the mental health characteristics of Chinese special education teachers.
Methods: Based on the random sampling and snowball sampling, SCL-90 was used to survey on six hundred and eighty-one Chinese special education teachers.
Results: The detection rate of the mental health symptoms of Chinese special education teachers was high (14.51%-34.36%). All SCL-90 factors were remarkably higher than national norms (p < 0.001). The mental health levels of female teachers were not as good as male teachers; and the mental health levels increased with special education teachers’ age and teaching experience. Young teachers showed more mental health symptoms of hostility, terror and psychosis; novice and skilled teachers showed more mental health symptoms of interpersonal sensitivity and terror; the third-level teachers showed more mental health symptoms of somatization, terror and psychosis.
Conclusion: There were obvious mental health symptoms among Chinese special education teachers. More attentions should be paid to the psychological conditions of the groups of mental health, such as female teachers, young teachers, novice and skilled teachers, and junior-title teachers
Keywords
Special education teachers, SCL-90, Mental health, Mental health symptoms, Sampling survey