Volume 29, Issue 5, 2020
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.1040
Occupational Support and Mental Health in Special Education Teachers: Resilience and Years of Teaching Experience as Mediator and Moderator
Abstract
Objective: The research focused on the roles of resilience and years of teaching experience between special education teachers’ occupational support and their mental health.
Methods: 681 participants were surveyed by the questionnaires of SETOSQ, CARS and SCL-90.
Results: There were significant correlations between occupational support and resilience (r = 0.50, p < .01), occupational support and mental health symptoms (r = -0.28, p < .01), mental health symptoms and resilience (r = -.39, p < .01). Occupational support could make a significant prediction on mental health symptoms; resilience played a role of partial mediator between occupational support and mental health symptoms; years of teaching experience played a role of moderator between mental health symptoms and resilience.
Conclusion: The research found that occupational support had a significant predictive effect on special education teachers’ mental health, among them, resilience played a mediating role, and years of teaching experience played a moderating role.
Keywords
occupational support, resilience, mental health, mediating effect, moderating effect, special education teachers