THE CONNECTION BETWEEN BEHAVIORAL STRATEGY AND PROFESSIONAL BURNOUT LEVEL IN DIFFICULT LIFE SITUATIONS AMONG PEDAGOGUES

Abstract

Epidemic, war, post-war chaos, this was the situation our society had to deal with. Every aspect of human life was encountered with the new circumstances that brought about the need to change. And, the educational system was not an exception. The latter appeared to be the main target of this situation. The pedagogues, as a subject of the educational process, suffered all the negative influences that led to drastic changes in both the external and internal environments. Teaching has moved to a wider platform; the whole educational ecosystem has changed. The teaching methods, the management of the process, the relations between the object and the subject of education were mediated. In the conditions of enormous emotional tension, it was momentous for the pedagogues to find the energy and resources and cope with the novel stress. The variety and durability of stressors, the increase in workload, the urgency of new professional approaches necessitated the urgent development of new behavioral strategies. The study aims to find out the level of professional burnout of educators, the behavioral strategies for coping with stressful situations, and whether there is a connection between the level of occupational burnout and preferred “coping behavior".